Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik DR-TA pada materi membaca teks narasi sebagai bahan ajar. Hipotesis tindakan yang diajukan dalam penelitian ini adalah penggunaan teknik DR-TA dapat meningkatkan pemahaman membaca teks narasi siswa kelas satu IPS di MA Al-Awwabin Depok. Penelitian ini menggunakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan tujuan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan pemahaman membaca siswa pada teks narasi dengan menggunakan teknik DR-TA.
Hipotesis tindakan yang dicadangkan dalam kajian ini ialah penggunaan teknik DR-TA dapat meningkatkan kefahaman bacaan pelajar terhadap teks naratif dalam darjah satu IPS di MA Al-Awwabin Depok.
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
Background of the Research
This technique was developed by Stauffer and has become one of the most substantial ways that can help students learn reading skills (Camille & Donna, 2008). The goal of this reading technique is to help students think actively and become engaged in reading. The conclusion is that students can improve their reading skills by using the DRTA technique.
Since they expected to think critically by predicting the text, this could increase their reading skills.
Identification and Limitation of the Research Problem
Formulation of the Research
Objective of the Research
Significance of the Research
The subject focused on reading, narrative text and the technique of guided reading-thinking behaviour.
Reading
- The Understanding of Reading
- The Understanding of Reading Comprehension
- The Purpose of Reading
- The Problems of Reading
Jhonson stated that reading comprehension is the use of strategies in reading to retrieve the information and understand the meaning of text (Jhonson, 2008). Moreover, reading comprehension is a strategy for establishing the connection between the student's idea in his head and the text. In general, the main purpose of reading is to get information from a text that the writer intended the reader to receive.
There are a number of specific reading difficulties based on Jeremy Harmer in his book 'The Practice of English Language Teaching'.
Narrative Text
- The Understanding of Narrative Text
- The Purpose of Narrative Text
- The Schematic Structure of Narrative Text
In this part, the author gives a description of the story and a solution to the problem of the story. In addition, the author can use the moral meaning of the story to convey a message to the audience. In this part, the author tells the readers about the characters in the novel, about when the story takes place and where the story is set in this part.
It means that the problem that arises in the plot of the story is finally solved.
Directed Read Thinking Activity Technique
- The Concept of Directed Read Thinking Activity (DR-TA) Technique Direct Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) is a strategy that explicitly
- The Procedure of Directed Read Thinking Activity (DR-TA)
In this part, the author described something that will trigger a chain of events in this part. In this part, the author told about the reaction of the characters when they faced the complication. Teachers should then use open-ended questions to guide students when making assumptions about the content or point of view of the text.
In this chapter, the author presented research environments that consist of determining the time and place of research, research method and design, research participant, research instrument, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures, credibility and technique for drawing conclusions.
Research Setting
Kurt Lewin designed the Classroom Action Research (CAR) protocol that the researcher used in this study. The researcher made some plans after discovering the students' reading problems in the classrooms using the results of the questionnaire and observation. At the first meeting, the researcher administered a pre-test to determine the students' reading comprehension skills on narrative text.
Based on the data obtained in the previous phase, the researcher considers and analyzes the outcome of the action in this step.
Research Participant
The researcher conducted observation after action implementation through direct monitoring of the action during this process. The researcher studied the teaching and learning process by observing all the events that took place. In this phase, the changes made by implementing the action to the subject of research can be known.
The goal of this process is to use the guided reading thinking activity technique to assess students' reading comprehension improvement on narrative text.
Research Instrument
If there was anything that needed to be revised, it should be done in the next cycle through the revised planning, the re-action, the re-observation. It is divided into five categories: student activity, interest and motivation, appreciation, the opinion of others, working together in the group and giving the idea. The questionnaire that will be given to the research participants aims to know their reactions to the process of promoting students' reading comprehension of narrative texts by using the Directed Read Thinking Activity technique (DRTA) before and after the teaching and learning process.
Students will receive a pre-examination in the form of a multiple-choice reading comprehension test at the beginning of their studies.
Procedures of Collecting Data
The researcher used the pre-test before implementing technique to know students' reading score before implementing DRTA technique. Meanwhile, the researcher used after the implementation of DRTA's goal to identify the improvement of students' reading comprehension and understanding.
Procedures of Data Analysis
The researcher examined the validity and reliability of the test instruments before administering and providing a pre-test to determine whether the test was accurate or not. The researcher applied audit prior to prescription by having a consultant review and evaluate the analysis to ensure test validity of the instruments. As calculated using Anatest, the validity value or correlation of the XY instruments (pretest and posttest cycle 1) used in this study is 0.74.
Meanwhile, the reliability of the instruments was 0.86, which means that the test is valid and categorized in very high reliability.
Technique of Drawing Conclusion
Based on the writer's research, the DRTA technique can promote students' reading comprehension of a narrative text. Based on quantitative data, the result of the reading comprehension assessment of the narrative text is significantly improved by the DRTA technique. In the pre-test, the average reading comprehension score of the students before the DRTA technique for the twenty students in the class was only five students who completed the KKM.
And the conclusion based on the above explanation, the Guided Thinking Reading Activity was successful to improve and promote students' reading comprehension in the narrative text.
Suggestion
The suggestion for other Researchers: Reading learning process is not too easy, especially for students with lack of vocabulary, so this DRTA technique helps learning because students are first trained to be confident in the learning process.
Improving reading comprehension through a strategy of directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA) for the eight students of SMP Negeri 17 Medan in the academic year 2016/2017. Improving reading comprehension of students of group VII of SMPN 13 Yogyakarta through the focused reading-thinking activity.
APPENDICES
Kompetensi Inti
Kompetensi Dasar dan Indikator
Tujuan Pembelajaran
Materi Pokok
- The generic structure of Narrative text
The purpose of the text is to amuse or amuse the readers or listeners about the story. The couple agreed to sacrifice their first son during the time asked by the voice. On the next occasion there was a voice in heaven reminding the couple of their vow.
But because the earthquakes and thunders became more and more terrible, Kesuma could not let his family and all the people in the village die. For the next times you must all sacrifice animals and crops to the gods.” Then he jumped up onto the crater of the volcano. The baby grew up to be a handsome, tough man." What is the synonym of the underlined word.
Metode Pembelajaran / teknik
Media/Sumber/Alat Pembelajaran
Kegiatan Pembelajaran
Guru memberikan tindak lanjut berupa pekerjaan rumah (PR) dan menutup kegiatan belajar mengajar dengan membacakan doa.
Penilaian
- Pedoman Penilaian
Kompetensi Dasar dan Indikator
Materi Pokok
- What type of text is the above text? It is … a.narrative text
- What destroyed the homes of all rats?
- What helped the elephant's herd free?
However, a group of elephants crossing the jungle unwittingly destroyed all the rats' homes. Then the rats decided to approach the elephant's chief and ask him to guide his herd through another route. Hearing the sad story, the elephant king apologized and agreed to take another route.
He called one of the elephants from his herd, which was not trapped, to seek help from the king and told him about the trapped elephants. The rat king immediately took his entire group of rats and they cut open the nets that trapped the elephant's herd. What is generic structure of "once upon a time there lived a group of mice in peace under a tree".
Metode Pembelajaran / teknik
Media/Sumber/Alat Pembelajaran
Kegiatan Pembelajaran
Penilaian
Pedoman Penilaian
Guru menuntut siswa memahami struktur teks, fungsi sosial, dan unsur kebahasaan dalam teks.
PenilaianTeknik : Objective Test
- Kompetensi Inti
One day, elephant hunters came to the jungle and caught a group of elephants in huge nets.
Kompetensi Dasar dan Indikator
Materi Pokok
- What type of text is the above text? It is … a.narrative text
- What destroyed the homes of all rats?
- What helped the elephant's herd free?
Metode Pembelajaran / teknik
Media/Sumber/Alat Pembelajaran
Kegiatan Pembelajaran
Penilaian
Pedoman Penilaian
- Why the people weren't happy with their king ?
- Which paragraph that contains the conflic or complication?
- What did the king do to improve his health?
- What is the main idea of the first paragraph ?
- Why bunny asked for help to his friends?
- What we can learn from this story ?
- What kind of text this story?
- What the message that they got from their father?
- What title is suitable for this story?
- What does the man do to repay her kindness?
- In the following,there are the characteristics (language features) of Narrativetext, except
- What the purpose of narrative text ?
If you will spare my life, maybe I can also give you a good turn." The Lion began to laugh, and he laughed and laughed. Oh well," he shrugged and looked down at the frightened Mouse, "you're not such a meal anyway." He took his paw off the poor prisoner and the Mouse quickly ran away. Because, the king was too lazy and didn't want to do anything but eat and sleep.
As the king was very kind to his fellow men, many famous doctors suggested to help him. He heard of the king's ill health and asked the minister to meet him at his place. He asked the king to meet the holy man to get rid of the ill health.
The holy man encouraged him and said that he was good and very soon the king would recover his health. He asked the king to come for treatment every day from the next visiting day. Also the holy man told the king that he would treat the king if he came on foot to his place.
The King could not even walk a few steps on the road, but accompanied by his followers he reached the holy man's place. This was repeated for two weeks and the king never met the holy man, never had any treatment. Very soon the king regained his health, and the people were very happy in his kingdom. The king had a lot of wealth, but no amount of wealth could heal him.
With a surprised look, the boy drank the milk very slowly. "How much do I owe you for this milk?" he asked her.
N ARRATIVE TEXT BY USING DIRECTED READ THINKING ACTIVITY (DR-TA)
