Prihastuti, Yuli Susanti (2013) IMPROVING THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N I WONOSARI BY USING THE VISUALIZATION STRATEGY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The objective of the study is to improve the reading comprehension of the eighth grade students of SMP N I Wonosari in the second semester of the academic year of 2012/2013 by using visualization strategy. The type of the study is action research. The study was conducted in two cycles. The participants of this study were the researcher, the English teacher and 24 students of Class VIII C of SMP N 1 Wonosari. There were two types of data in this study, qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were obtained from the observation during the teaching and process, the interview with the English teacher and the students. The data were in the forms of field notes and interview transcripts. The quantitative data were obtained from the reading comprehension pre-test and post-test in the forms of scores. The result of the study shows that the implementation of the visualization strategy improved the students’ reading comprehension as shown from the progress of the mean value of their pre-test and post-test scores. The mean value of their pretest scores was 58.95 while the mean value of post-test scores was 75.20. The students performed active involvement in the class discussion and group discussion. It shows that the interaction among the students and between the students and the teacher was also enhanced. Most of the students were able to overcome their own difficulties related to the difficult words. The students were able to memorize more words as shown from the progress of the mean value of the quizzes in two cycles. It can be summarized that the students’ problem in comprehending the text could be solved by implementing the visualization strategy.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | reading comprehension, visualization strategy, SMP |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2015 01:59 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2019 00:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/22529 |
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