questions involved the actions of building the students’ interest and attention. Collecting the data and associating involved the action of collecting and
exploring the key vocabularies found in the text; building a connection between the key vocabularies and content of text. Meanwhile, comprehending
the whole text was involved in the step of communicating. The students’ improvement on reading comprehension could be seen
based on their participation in the teaching and learning process and the result of pre-test and post-test. The students participated actively in the class and
showed their interest and attention in reading the English texts. They had fun when they were asked to go forward to write their selected words on the
board. The strategy also supposed them to work in groups so that they could share the ideas with their friends. They could guess the meaning of unfamiliar
words based on the context of the text as well. They realized that they did not have to skip the unfamiliar words while reading the English texts. They tried
to connect those words with the surrounding words to determine the right meaning. Moreover, the students’ score in post-test were higher than that in
pre-test. The mean scores of the two tests also improved significantly. Hence, it could be concluded that the implementation of Vocabulary Self-Collection
Strategy VSS was successful in particular to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
B. Implications
The implementation of Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy VSS had given good impacts to the students. It influenced the students in two ways:
their interest and attention in joining the class and their ability in reading comprehension. The first one was that the students’ interest and attention
improved especially when they were reading the English texts. They felt bored when reading in nature, but the implementation of actions changed
their perspective in reading to be better. For instance, grouping activity was successful to make the students more active and confident in the class since
they could discuss the problems with their friends. The use of video given in Cycle II also gave a good impact to the students in which they had fun in
doing the activity. They were more enthusiastic in joining the further activity as well. In addition, the distribution of worksheet to each group made the
students focus and gave their fully attention in doing the task in particular when reading a text since they had the materials in hand.
Secondly, the students were easier to comprehend the text. The use of VSS chart as a media to collect and define the key vocabularies helped them
in comprehending the whole text effectively. In the practice, they could define the unfamiliar words found in the text according to the context of the
text. Their high-order thinking skills also improved since they accustomed to use their background knowledge to be connected with the new materials.
Moreover, the students already understood the importance of words as the key to comprehend the whole text. They could not skip the unfamiliar words
when reading. In addition, the students could answer the questions related to the text easier since they had thoroughly comprehended the text.
C. Suggestions 1. To the Students
In reading the English texts, sometimes the students felt bored since there were so many unfamiliar words that they did not know the meaning
yet. Sometimes, they prefer to skip those words and did not want to explore more. Finding the meaning from the dictionary sometimes would
not give satisfied result since one word could have different meaning depending on the context of the text itself. One of the solutions was trying
to guess the meaning by seeing the clues around the word. The clues could be in the form of word, phrase, or sentence in the text. Reading
repeatedly could be a way to comprehend texts as a whole.
2. To the English Teachers
Finding an appropriate strategy was an important thing to be successful in teaching reading. Reading was considered as a boring
activity by many students. One of the solutions was making interesting activities so that they could be interested in reading. The activities should
be able to encourage the students to be more active in the class. Dividing the students into some groups might become the appropriate strategy in
order to make them participate actively during the class. In addition, the use of media was really important to get the students’ attention.
3. To other Researchers
The research conducted was still limited by time. It would be better if there was the same research conducted in longer time so that the
students’ improvement could be seen more. Moreover, the understanding of the actions taken was the important thing for the researcher. It was the
way to be successful in research. The steps of research such as preparation, implementation, and finishing should be passed orderly so that there was
no misconception happened. The best researcher would be never satisfied with his or her findings; there was always problem in a solution.
