ABSTRACT ku


ABSTRACT


Tri Susilowati. IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION USING SQ4R (A Classroom Action Research at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Islam 1 Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). A Thesis. Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University, March 2012.

The aims of this research are: to know whether the use of SQ4R can improve reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Islam 1 Surakarta in the Academic Year 2011/2012, and to describe what happens when SQ4R is implemented in reading class.
The method of this research is a classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles from 28 February-31 May 2011 at class XI IPA 1 of SMA Islam 1 Surakarta. There were two kinds of data collection, quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistic analysis. The qualitative data were analyzed using five stages of analyzing data developed by Burn (1999: 157).
 The results of this research show that teaching reading using SQ4R can improve reading comprehension of the eleventh grade of SMA Islam 1 Surakarta in the academic year 2011/2012. There are two categories of the improvements in teaching reading comprehension. Those are the improvements of students’ competence and classroom situation.
The improvement of students’ competence can be seen from the result of the test. The students’ mean score increase from 42.67 in pre-test to 44.11 in post-test 1 to 64.22 in post-test 2.
The improvements of classroom situation included: (1) the students were not noisy anymore; (2) the students especially the girls were not shy to express their ideas; (3) the students especially the boys were calmer; (4) the students could understand the teacher’s instruction; (5) they were not sleepy in the class, but they enjoyed during the lesson. Besides, there was a good interaction between the researcher and the students. There were also attention and participation from the students in the teaching and learning process.










Key words: reading comprehension, SQ4R

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