IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN READING CLASS THROUGH INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in Academic Year 20102011)

  IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN READING CLASS THROUGH INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in Academic Year 2010/2011) A THESIS Submitted to English Department as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for S.Pd Degree By: Erni Rochmawati 0701050051 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO 2011

  MOTTO

• I will never say give up doing the best in my life

Believe to your heart !!!!

  There are two choices in your live: Accept the condition just the way it is Or Accept the responsibility to change it

• Reach your dream to become true!

  

DEDICATION

From the deepest and purest of my heart, I would like to present this little creation to:

  

Allah SWT, for his love, merciful and kindness. Thanks God for all the

patience.

  

My beloved parents, thanks for everythings that you give to me. I love

you with the full of my heart, thanks for love, prayer, support and wise

advise...^_^...

  

My beloved sisters, mb eRna and mb Ida, thanks for prayer and support.

  

My beloved grandmother (simbah Dullah Muslim) and all of my family in Jogja, thanks for

prayer and support...^_^...

  

My family in Dukuh Waluh, who always give me support, motivation and pray.

Thank you very much Om, Bulik, mbah ti & mbah kung, budhe, pakdhe, mba anti,

bangkit...^_^....

  

My beloved friends ina, pepy, asty, iin, Lina, and all of friends in class A2 thanks for your

support..

  

Nduk anna, julay, justin, arie, icha, didi didonk, pus,....

  

To Be Your Friend is Very Enjoyable ..^_^..

  

My beloved friends in Jogja, I miss u all ......

  

I’m coming soon friends....^_^.....

PREFACE Assalamua’laikum Wr. Wb

  First of all, the writer would like to express great thankfulness to Allah SWT, who has given guidance, lessing, and strenght, physically and spiritually, so that she can complete finish writing the thesis as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the S. Pd. Degree of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. The writer would like to express her deepest thank to:

  1. Drs. Joko Purwanto, M. Si, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto who gave the writer permission to conduct the research.

  2. Endang Kusrini, S. Pd, M.Hum, as the Head of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, who has given agreement to conduct this research.

  3. Drs. Pudiyono, M. Hum, as the first supervisor who has given much attention to me, so the writer could finish the thesis.

  4. Endang Kusrini, S. Pd, M. Hum as the second supervisor who has guided the writer patiently.

  5. Sugeng, S. Pd, the headmaster of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang, who has given permission to the writer to conduct this research.

  6. Eka Rosdiana Novianti, S. Pd, the English Teacher of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang, who has given permission to conduct this research in her class.

  7. The students of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang for their cooperation during the research.

  The writer thinks that this thesis is still far from being perfect. Therefore the writer would appreciate constructive criticism and suggestion, which would encourage her to further study.

  Purwokerto, 27 July 2011 The writer

  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE ……………………………………………………………………….....

  A. The Nature of Students’ Involvement….…….…………........

  ………………………….

  10 3. The Purpose of Reading. ……………………………….…. 11 4. Major Components of Reading.

  9 2. The Importance of Reading. ………………………………

  9 1. The Definition of Reading. ……………………………….

  7 B. Reading.......................................... …………………...............

  6 3. Causal Factor of Students’ Involvement Low………….....

  ……………...

  1. The Definition of Stu dents’ Involvement.…..…………… 5 2. Encourage Students to Involve in the Class..

  5

  3 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW

  i APPROVAL…………………………………………………………………... ii MOTTO………………………………………………………………………... iii

  3 E. Contribution of the Research ….……………………………...

  3 D. Aim of the Research.... ……………………………………....

  3 C. Problem of the Research.... ……………………………….….

  1 B. Reason for Choosing the T opic………………………………

  ……………………….........….

  CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A. Background of Research.......

  NTS…………………………………………………........ vii LIST OF TABLES…………………………………………............................... viii LIST OF APPENDICES……………………………………………………….. ix ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………….... x

  PREFACE……………………………………………………………………… v TABLE OF CONTE

  DE DICATION ………………………………………………………………… iv

  12

  C. Interactive Activities in Teaching Reading...

  21 E. Technique of Collecting Data ..... …………………………....

  CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A. Conclusion……………………………………………………

  31 B. Discussion……………………………………………………. 49

  A. Result of Research ……………………………………......

  30 CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION

  27 G. Criteria of the Successful Action. ……………………………

  23 F. Technique for Analyzing Data. ………………………………

  21 D. Research Design …………………………..............................

  ………………..

  20 C. Subject of the Research. ………………………………..........

  20 B. Place and Time of the Research ……………………………..

  CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Method of the Research ………………………………..........

  …………………………….. 17

  15 3. The Advantages of Using Interactive Activities. …………. 17 4. Steps of Interactive Activities.

  13 2. Types of Interactive Activities. …………………………...

  13 1. Interactive Activities’ Definition...…..……………….......

  56 B. Suggestion……………………………………………………. 57 REFERENCES APPENDICES

  

ABSTRACT

  

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN READING CLASS THROUGH

  

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

(A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah

Sumbang, in Academic Year of 2010/2011)

By:

  

Erni Rochmawati

0701050051

This research was aimed to improve students’ involvement in reading class through

  interactive activities technique. It used classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted at

  VIII A Grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in academic year 2010/ 2011 as the subject of the research. The number of the students was 38 students comprised of 22 males and 16 females. This study was done from February until July 2011.

  The writer worked collaboratively with the English teacher in the class. The Classroom Action Research was carried out based on the Kemmis and Taggart design. The writer took two cycles with two actions in each cycle. Each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In collecting the data, the writer used observation, questionnaire, reading test, interview, and documentation.

  The result of the data observation showed that the average of students ’ involvement in cycle 1 was 29.9%, and the average of students involvement in cycle 2 was 71.30%, so the improvement from cycle 1 to cycle 2 was 42.1%. It has reached the criterion of the indicator success which was 40 %. It was supported by the improvement of test result and questionnaire result. The average of the test result from cylce 1 was 63.28, and cycle 2 was 68.85. So the improvement from cycle 1 to cycle 2 was 5.57. The questionnaire result showed that the students gave the positive response toward the teaching reading and learning process using interactive activities technique. It showed that from 10 available questions, there was more than 70% of students’ answer interested using interactive activities in reading class. Then, from the interview result, there was almost all students who gave positive response and showed that the students felt happy, enthusiatic and motivated in teaching learning process. Based on the data above interactive activities technique was able to improve students’ involvement in reading class.

  

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 : Table of the Schedule of Research ..............................................

  20 Table 2 : Table of Students Observation Sheet............................................

  24 Table 3 : Table of Observation Sheet of Teacher’s Activities .................... 24 Table 4 : Table of Queationnaire Stude nts’ Response ................................ 26 Table 5 : Table of Observation Result of Students Activities in cycle 1 .....

  37 Table 6 : Table of Observation Result of Teacher’s Activities in cycle 1 ... 38 Table 7 : Table of Observation Result of Students Activities in cycle 2 .....

  46 Table 8 : Table of Observation Teacher’s Activities in cycle 2 ................ 47 Table 9 : Table of the Result of CAR in cycle 1 and cycle 2 ......................

  49 Table 10 : Table of the Improvement of Students’Observation in cycle 1 and cycle 2 ... 51 Table 11 : Table of the Result of Questionnaire ............................................

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 : The Action Research Spiral ........................................................

  22 Figure 2 : The Squences Process of Qualitative Data ..................................

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ABSTRACT

  

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN READING CLASS

THROUGH INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES

(A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMP

Muhammadiyah Sumbang, in Academic Year of 2010/2011)

  

By:

Erni Rochmawati

0701050051

This research was aimed to improve students’ involvement in reading class

  through interactive activities technique. It used classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted at VIII A Grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Sumbang in academic year 2010/ 2011 as the subject of the research. The number of the students was 38 students comprised of 22 males and 16 females. This study was done from February until July 2011.

  The writer worked collaboratively with the English teacher in the class. The Classroom Action Research was carried out based on the Kemmis and Taggart design. The writer took two cycles with two actions in each cycle. Each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In collecting the data, the writer used observation, questionnaire, reading test, interview, and documentation.

  The result of the data observation showed that the average of students’ involvement in cycle 1 was 29.9%, and the average of students involvement in cycle 2 was 71.30%, so the improvement from cycle 1 to cycle 2 was 42.1%. It has reached the criterion of the indicator success which was 40 %. It was supported by the improvement of test result and questionnaire result. The average of the test result from cylce 1 was 63.28, and cycle 2 was 68.85. So the improvement from cycle 1 to cycle 2 was 5.57. The questionnaire result showed that the students gave the positive response toward the teaching reading and learning process using interactive activities technique. It showed that from 10 available questions, there was more than 70% of students’ answer interested using interactive activities in reading class. Then, from the interview result, there was almost of students who gave positive response and showed that the students felt happy, enthusiatic and motivated in teaching learning process. Based on the data above interactive activities technique was able to improve students’ involvement in reading class.