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Table 4.7 The Level of students’ Reading Comprehension based on Their Post-test 1 Result
Percentage Interpretation
Number of students N=38
81-100 Very good
- 61-80
Good 4
41-60 Fair
26 21-40
Poor 8
1-20 Very poor
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From the table above it can be concluded that the average of gained score increased from 41.20 in pre-test became 46.30 in post-test 1. Most of the reading
skills increased although just a very little improvement see appendix 13, page 197.
3 Observing the Action
Observing is an important aspect in a classroom action research, because it can help the researcher gain a better understanding of her own research. When the
researcher implemented the Learning Cell Technique in teaching reading comprehension, the process was observed and the result can be explained as
follows:
a. The first meeting
In this meeting, the pre-test was conducted. This test was held to know the students’ achievement in reading comprehension before the action plan was
implemented. From the pre-test result, the mean of the students’ score was 41.16.
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The highest score was 68.00 and the lowest score was 28.00 see appendix 13, page 197.
b.The second meeting
In the second meeting, the teaching and learning process ran slowly. There were some students who were not active in teaching and learning process meeting.
The researcher explained how to make questions and answers based on the reading comprehension indicators. The indicators are general idea, main idea,
explicit information, implicit information, word meaning and word reference.
c.The third meeting
In this third meeting all group have tried to made questions and answers but not all the group did all the indicators. Most of them had difficulties in making
questions and answers about explicit information, word meaning, and implicit
information. d. The fourth meeting
In this fourth meeting, most of the groups had difficulties in making questions and answers about general idea, explicit information, word meaning,
implicit information and word reference. They also still had problem if they read text using I or My.
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e. The fifth meeting
In this meeting, Post-test 1 was conducted this test was held to know the students’ achievement in reading comprehension after the action plan was
implemented.The result of Post-Test 1 showed improvement of students’ mean score although just a little bit improvement. The mean score increased from 41.16
in the pre-test to 46.30 in post-test 1. The students’ improvement can be seen in the following table.
Table 4.8 Pre-test and Post-test 1 scores No
Explanation The result of pre-test The result of pos-test 1
1 Highest score
68.00 64.00
2 Lowest score
28.00 24.00
3 Average
41.16 46.30
Table 4.9 The students’gained scores viewed from their skill in the pre-test and post-test 1
N o
Skill
students’ gained scores
Max score
Pre-test Post-test 1
mean mean
1 Explicit information 10 numbers , max score 380
50.78 20.32 62.63
25.05 40 2 Word meaning 3 numbers,
max score 114 31.58
3.79 28.95
3.47 12
3 Implicit information 3 numbers, max score 114
16.67 2.00
21.93 2.63
12 4 General idea Item number 2
numbers, max score 76 68.42
5.47 75.00
6.00 8
5
Main idea 3 numbers, max score 114
13.16 1.57
18.42 2.21
12 6 Word reference
4 numbers, max score 152 50.00
8.00 43.42
6.94 16
41.16 41.16 46.32
46.32
100
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Table 4.10 The level of students’ Reading Comprehension based on their Pre-test and Post-test 1 results
Percentage Interpretation
Pre-test 38 students
Post-test 1 38 students
81-100 Very good
- -
61-80 Good
2 4
42-60 Fair
20 26
21-40 Poor
16 8
1-20 Very poor
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Table 4.11 The improvement of class situation.
Class Situation
At the beginning of the Cycle 1 At the end of the Cycle 1
a. Students’ participation:
The students were passive readers and did not perform well during the activity.
They were active enough to get involved in reading activity.
b. Students’ motivation
