GENERAL FINDINGS RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
1. To English teachers
It is essential for English teachers to improve the quality of the teaching of reading by employing various activities which are enjoyable and
motivati ng to improve students’ reading comprehension and students’
involvement. The English teachers can use CIRC such as in the form of group discussion and games practices. The researcher realized that in applying
CIRC, the class would be noisy as happening in this research. Therefore, English teachers should pay attention to the class condition
because in the implementation of CIRC students conduct group discussion practices. Besides, the English teachers should choose the texts and tasks
which are appropriate to the students’ proficiency level.
2. To other researchers
The focus of this study deals only with the reading comprehension of students in grade VIII by using CIRC. This study still lacks many things like
the limited time and the actions in each cycle. The limited time made this study could not be perfect in reaching the goals. The actions problem was
caused by the limited ability of the researcher in conditioning the students in the classroom.
They can make a better plan to improve students’ reading
comprehension using CIRC. They can explore CIRC method based on the students’ need in learning English. In addition, they can conduct other
research from different angles of reading comprehension.
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FIELD NOTES