10 data of the research were qualitative and were supported by the quantitative data.
The data were collected through observation, interview, and test. The result of the study shows that there are improvement
s in the students’ involvement, motivation, reading and writing abilities, and the teaching and
learning process of reading and writing. It is shown by the active involvement and enthusiasm of students in doing the reading and writing activities. In both cycles,
they showed some improvements in physical, mental, and social involvement. Students’ reading and writing abilities also enhanced. It was shown by the average
score in Cycle 1 was 73.74, and in Cycle 2 was 74.71. In writing, stu dents’
average score in Cycle 1 was 75.81 and in Cycle 2 was 77.02. Related to the teaching-learning process of reading and writing, the improvement was shown by
the teacher who had given students a lot of opportunities to be active, taught some reading and writing strategies, applied
various activities in reading and writing class, and provided motivating materials. Finally, it can be concluded that CIRC activities that have been implemented in
this research have improved the teaching and learning process of reading and writing.
2.1.3 The Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text of the Seventh Grade
Students of MTs Negeri Gembong Pati Taught by Using CIRC Method
Astuti 2012 conducted the research “The Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text of the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Negeri Gembong Pati Taught by Using
CIRC Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition Method in the Academic Year 20112012” The objective of this study is to find out the
significant difference between reading comprehension in descriptive text of the
11 seventh grader students of MTs N Gembong Pati in the academic year 20112012
before and after being taught by using CIRC. This study used the one group pretest posttest design which only used one group as the sample. The researcher
used cluster random sampling technique to determine the sample and finally the researcher chose VII B as the sample.
The researcher conducted this study in the three phases; pretest, treatment by using CIRC, and posttest. The mean of the posttest was 87,67. It was higher than
the mean of the pretest which was 72, thus the hypothesis of this study was accepted.
2.1.4 CIRC to Improve Students’ Reading Achievement
Cahyaningpuspita 2011 conducted the research “Cooperative Integrated
Reading and Composition CIRC t o Improve Students’ Reading Achievement”.
This is the Classroom Action Research. However, the obejective of this research not only to know whether the use of
CIRC can be used to improve the students’ result of the learning process but also focus on the effort to decrease the
heter ogeneous among the students’ result of learning. The researcher has observed
that there was a big heterogeneous among the students’ result of learning. This heterogeneous is the problem which is often faced by the teacher in class. It
became the evidence that the students were different each other in the level of reading comprehension. The result of this study showed us that CIRC that was
used by the teacher to teach reading materials can decrease the heterogeneous among the students. The ability to understand the reading material of the students
became more balance among them.
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2.1.5 The Use of CIRC to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension
