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5. The Technique of Collecting Data
Technique of collecting data has goal to support the success of the research. It helps the research to get the data and the information about the process
of improving students’ motivation in reading by using short story. On the other side, the qualitative data uses pre-test and post test.
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1 Observation
In general, the class condition in learning process was better than the previous. The students is very exicted in this activities. It could be seen from
students who were ready to follow the lesson and they have a high motivation to reading a story when the teacher was given. When the teacher gave the short
story, there was some students rise their hand and offer them to reading a short story in front of the class. After that, the students are interesting in teaching and
learning process, because the teacher always brought the differences stories and has pictures when teaching reading in the classroom.
In here, teacher also played as facilitator. She gave attention to the students and she was fair with them. Almost the students looked very active and
confident to do their tasks. When the teacher asked them, they very excited. 2
Interview The result of this interview of the teacher after the research, the writer
carried out the unstructured interview with the teacher. Here, the teacher agreed that the
short sory text can improving students’ motivation in reading ability. She believe that the students could practice their reading outside. And the teacher
would be plesed to used short story technique when she teaches reading in the classroom.
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Suharsimi Arikunto, Penelitian Tindakan Kelas, Jakarta: Bumi Aksara, 2009, pp. 127- 132.
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3 Test
Kin ds of the test is multiple choice. The test is used to know the students’
motivation before conducting the research and after conducting the result. There are two kinds of test in this research, namely post-test and pre-test. Pre-test is a
test was give b efore the implementation of this research. It is to measure students’
motivation in reading. Post-test is a test which given after the implementation of this research.
The result the mean score in post-test of cycle 2 is 78.57. It shows the best achievement, because they had score improvement. They proved the good
improvement for the each cycle. The percentage of mean score between pre-test and post-test 2 is 85.71 or 30 students who got the high score. So, it can be
concluded that the research is success because the perscentage of students’ mean
score of post-test 2 could pass the criterion of research success.
6. Technique of the Data Analysis
In this research, the writer uses qualitative data, because the observation during interview and teaching learning process do before and after action
research. In analyzing qualitative data, the writer got the average of student’s motivation score per action in one cycle. It used measure how well the student
motivation in reading by using short story used this formula:
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X
= Mean X = individual score
N = number of students
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Sudjana, Metodata Statistika, Bandung: PT Tarsito, 2002, p. 67.
n X
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