Safitri, Noor Fatonah (2015) USING VOCABULARY SELF-COLLECTION STRATEGY (VSS) TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 4 KALASAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2014/2015. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The aim of this action research was to improve the reading comprehension of seventh grade students of SMPN 4 Kalasan through the implementation of Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS) in reading class. This research was conducted in two cycles. The steps of the research were conducting reconnaissance, planning, implementing and observing the actions, and reflecting the actions. The actions included the vocabulary self-collection strategy which consisted of four main steps, namely building students’ interest and attention, collecting and exploring the key vocabularies found in the text, building connection between the key vocabularies and content of text, and comprehending the whole text. The participants of the research were the researcher, the English teacher and researcher’s colleague as the collaborators, and the seventh grade students of SMPN 4 Kalasan. The data of the research were in the form of qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process, interviewing the English teacher and the students, holding discussions with the collaborators, and taking pictures. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were obtained by administering a pre-test and a post-test to see the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension. The instruments of the research included interview guidelines, observation checklist, reading comprehension test sheets, a camera, and an audio recorder. The validity of the research was attained by applying democratic validity, process validity, outcome validity, catalytic validity, and dialogic validity. In addition, to make the data trustworthy or reliable, two kinds of triangulation (time triangulation and investigator triangulation) were used in this research. The research findings showed that reading comprehension of most students improved after the vocabulary self-collection strategy was used in the teaching and learning process. It was indicated by the increase of the mean of students’ reading comprehension scores in the pre-test and post-test (58.9 to 78.0).
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | action research, reading, vocabulary self-collection strategy |
| 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: | 30 Jul 2015 07:21 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2019 01:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/23942 |
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