IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CLOZE PROCEDURE
(A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth B Grade Students of SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 1 CILACAP in Academic Year 2011/2012)
A THESIS
Submitted to English Department as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for S.Pd. Degree
By:
MEGA KARTIKASARI 0801050070
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
DEDICATION
This thesis is dedicated to:
My beloved mother
Thank you for your endless love, prayer and support that make me
realize that I have to be the best for you. I LOVE YOU MOM. . . .
My beloved father
You have given me love, support and prayer until now. I always love and
remember you all the time. I LOVE YOU DAD. . . . Thanks for all.
My beloved brother “Dimas”
Thanks for your prayer and support. . .
My best friends (Lik upi, Om Yono, Izma, Lilis, Pipit, Nju, Desi, Septi)
thanks for your joke and support .
I’ll miss you all.. . . I LOVE YOU ALL
MOTTO
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
(Albert Einstein)
“You can if you think you can”
(George Reeves)
“There is not a success without a struggle”
PREFACE
Assalamu’alaikum, Wr. Wb
Alhamdulillah, firstly and mainly the writer would like to say her thanks to Allah SWT, who has given His mercy and blessing so that the writer could finish this thesis as partial fulfillment for the requirements of S.Pd. Degree at English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.
Secondly, the writer wishes to express his great appreciation and gratefulness to:
1. Drs. H. SyamsudinIrsyad, SH, M. H, the rector of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.
2. Drs. JokoPurwanto, M.Si. The Dean of Teacher Training and education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.
3. Endang Kusrini, S.Pd., M.Hum the Head of English Department of Teacher Training and education Faculty who gave the writer permission to conduct the research.
4. Dra. Hj. Titi Wahyukti, M.Pd. And Listiani, M.Pd. as the first and second consultant who gave guided the writer correcting the thesis patiently and wisely.
6. Chairul Anwar, S.Pd. The Headmaster of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Cilacap who has given permission to the writer to conduct the research.
7. Devi Widiastuti, S.Pd. The English teacher of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Cilacap who helped the writer as the collaborative teacher in the research.
8. All of the students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Cilacap especially class VII B who has participated in the research.
9. The writer’s parents who have supported and given support and love to the writer.
10. All of my friends who helped and gave aids to finish this thesis.
The writer believes that this research is still far from being a perfect one. Therefore, the writer would appreciate and like to invite constructive criticism and also suggestion from the readers. The writer hopes that this thesis will give valuable things especially to educational field and also those are interested in it.
Wassalamu’alaikum, Wr.Wb.
Purwokerto, 2012
TABLE OF CONTENT
3. The Aim of Reading ... 7
4. The Reading Types... 8
5. Assessing Reading ... 9
B. Reading Comprehension 1. The Definition of Reading Comprehension ... 12
2. The Components of Reading Comprehension ... 12
C. Cloze Procedure
6. The Disadvantages of Cloze Procedure ... 16
D. Teaching Reading Using Cloze Procedure ... 17
E. Basic Assumption ... 20
CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION
A. The Result of Research... 34
1. The Implementation of Cycle 1... 34
2. The Implementation of Cycle 2... 48
B. Discussion... 59
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION A. Conclusion... 62
B. Suggestion... 63
REFERENCES ... 64
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 : Table of the Schedule of Research ... 22
Table 2 : Table of Students Observation sheet ... 25
Table 3 : Table of Observation Sheet of Teacher’s Activities ... 26
Table 4 : Table of Questionnaire Students’ Response ... 28
Table 5 : Table of Observation Result of Students’ Activities in Cycle 1 ... 40
Table 6 : Table of the Teacher Result of the Teacher’s Activities in Cycle 1 ... 42
Table 7 : Table of the Improvement of Students’ Reading Comprehension of cycle 1 ... 44
Table 8 : Table of Observation Result of Students’ Activities in Cycle 2 ... 53
Table 9 : Table of the Teacher Result of the Teacher’s Activities in Cycle 2 ... 54
Table 10 : Table of Students’ Improvement of Reading Test in Cycle 2 ... 56
Table 11 : Table of the Summary of the Evaluation Result in Cycle 1 and 2 ... 58
Table 12 : Table of the Students’ Improvement in Reading Test ... 59
Table 13 : Table of the Average Improvement of the Students’ Activities in each Cycle ... 60
LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 1 The Observation of Students’ Activity in Cycle 1... 41
Figure 2 Students’ Improvement of Reading Test in Cycle 1 ... 44
Figure 3 The Observation Result of Students’ Activity in Cycle 2 ... 53
Figure 4 Students’ Improvement of Reading test in Cycle 2 ... 56
ABSTRACT
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH
CLOZE PROCEDURE
(A Classroom Action Research at the VIII B Students of SMP
Muhammadiyah 1 Cilacap in Academic year 2011/2012)
By
Mega Kartikasari 0801050070
The research aimed to improve students’ reading comprehension using cloze procedure. It used a classroom action research, which was conducted at VIII B Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Cilacap in Academic Year 2011/2012 who were 41 students. It was done in March and April 2012.
The research collaborated with English teacher. The classroom action research was carried out based on Kemmis and Mc. Taggart design. This research took two cycles with two actions in each cycle. Each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
There were two kinds of data collections; qualitative data and quantitative ones. The qualitative data were taken from observation result of teacher’s activity, field notes, and documentation. The quantitative data were taken from test, observation result of students’ activity, and also questionnaire.
