Tesis

Improving the reading comprehension ability of the fourth semester students of STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto through webbing strategy / Suud Purnomo

Abstrak
Keywords reading comprehension expository texts webbing strategy. This study was designed to improve the students reading comprehension ability through webbing strategy. It was conducted in order to find a strategy of teaching and learning that occurs especially in the teaching of reading skills. The strategy was selected because it was believed to be able to stimulate or activate the students to be more involved in the reading activities and to facilitate the students to comprehend the texts especially expository texts. Thus this study was directed to solve practical problems in the teaching and learning process. The research problem was formulated as follows How can the reading comprehension ability of the fourth semester students of STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto be improved through webbing strategy The study employed a collaborative classroom action research design in which the researcher and the collaborator as research team worked together designing the lesson plan implementing the action observing the action and reflecting the action. The subjects of this research were 40 students the fourth semester students of STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto in the 2009/2010 academic year. This research study was conducted in two cycles by following the procedure of action research i.e. planning implementing observing and reflecting. Each cycle of the research study encompassed three meetings of the strategy implementation and one meeting for the reading comprehension test. The data of this research study were obtained through reading tests observation checklist and field notes at the end of the cycle and the implementation of webbing strategy in teaching-learning process. The findings of this research study indicated that the webbing strategy was successful in improving both the students ability in comprehending expository texts and the students involvement in reading activities. The improvement can be seen from the increase of students mean scores and the students individual score percentage from preliminary study to Cycle 2. The students mean score had improved greatly from 64.83 to 78.17 or the students individual score percentage had achieved to a great extent from 42.50% to 85% equal or greater than 70% of 40 students. The mean score and the students individual score indicated higher than predetermined criteria of success that was 70% of 40 students who got score of 70. Based on the result of the Cycle 2 the next cycle did not need to be conducted because the students individual scores that the predetermined criteria of success have been met in the second cycle. Dealing with the students involvement it also seemed that most of students (92.50%) were involved actively in the reading activities in the third meeting of Cycle 2 which were shown by the observations checklists and field notes. The appropriate procedure of webbing strategy in teaching reading comprehension encompassed the following steps (1) explaining the students to the specific goals of learning and leading students to the topic by showing some webbings (2) writing a key word or phrase from an expository text on the chalkboard (3) asking students to group these words into logical categories and label each category with a descriptive title (4) asking the students to make a group and to discuss unfamiliar vocabularies (5) asking the students to find several themes or topics in a texts by brainstorming class discussion questioning to activate the students background knowledge or prior knowledge (6) asking the students to make webbing of the information from a text or write the information down in the form of phrases in the circles of webbing (7) having the students read a text fast (speed reading) (8) asking the students to find important detailed information of a text by questioning and put the information in the form of phrases into the circles of webbings (9) asking the students to find and discuss the center of idea or topic in a paragraph by classifying and categorizing with lines then write it into a sentence as a main idea of paragraph (10) asking the students to share and complete mapping with other group by comparing with own group mapping (11) asking to students to answer the reading comprehension questions individually then discuss or compare in a group (12) asking to students to present the results of webbings and answer of reading comprehension individually (13) asking the students to make a summary of a text they have learnt and (14) giving feedbacks to the students by checking the right answers of the previous reading comprehension questions. Based on the students achievement using webbing strategy in comprehending expository texts it was suggested for the English teachers apply webbing strategy as one of many alternatives that can be used in teaching reading skills. To the further researcher teachers particularly those who are interested in applying webbing strategy in their research it is suggested that they conduct classroom action research and implement this strategy in the teaching of reading to other English text types (descriptive narrative recount procedure) and other language skills for instance writing and it can be their reference in conducting in the same strategy. For institution webbing strategy can be new strategy that can improve the students reading comprehension ability of the fourth semester at STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto in comprehending the expository texs.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rt 428.407 PUR i

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, 2010.

Deskripsi Fisik

xii, 172 lembar : il., tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

04141/KI/10

Edisi

Tesis (Pasca Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang, 2010

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN

Pembimbing

1. SUHARMANTO ; 2. JOHANNES A. PRAYOGO

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