Judul Skripsi : Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Using Inquiry Learning Method of First Grade Students of MT Almurahamah Banyyorang. Improving students' reading comprehension using an inquiry learning method. (Action research in the class of students of the first grade of MT.s Almurahamah Bannyorang in the academic year 2020/2021. The average reading comprehension score of students in cycle I was 6.4, categorized as fair and became higher in cycle II was 8.4 categorized as good.
Her warm regards to all lectures of the FKIP UNISMUH especially lectures of the English Department and all staff of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar for their guidance during the years of the author's study. Her lovely bestie (Queen of the girls, Sri Asnidah, Summa, Sri Widyanti, Nurmasari, Dwi Handayani Lukman. The assignment is one of the essential skills we need to improve the welfare of our social & spacious progress.
The student gets an idea of the information that can enrich a vocabulary and the concept. Reading means that students understand what they read, not just read the book, but are able to get the knowledge and main idea of the text. It is important to know the importance of the learning process and has been adjusted for the researchers' ability to collect valid data, according to Choi, Lee and Jung (2008).
Research Problem
The Objective of the Research
Significant of the Research 1. For the teacher
Scope of the Research
Previous Related Research Findings
Some Partinent Ideas
- The general concept of Inquiry Learning Method a. Definition of Inquiry Learning Method
- Purpose
- Hypothesis
- Procedure
- Materials
- Data
- Analysis
- Conclusion
According to bruin, reading is one of the language skills that aside from speaking, writing and listening. According to Pearson and dale (: ) civil servants from 1978, reading comprehension is the process of unity and the process of the discrete set. One of the significant lack of understanding is that teachers hope that they read the material outside.
Students' reading ability must be diagnosed by the teacher, the result of the diagnosis becomes central planning teaching. If the students test many types of food for starches and fats, you will push them to get them out of the house. This is where the meaning of the research can be included in the context of the unit as a whole.
According to Alberta, learning inquiry is the process of those involved in their education formulating a question, researching it broadly, and building understanding of its meaning and new knowledge.
METHODOLOGY METHODOLOGY
Planning
Action
Observation
Reflection
Variable
Research Subject
The Research Instrument
Observation was the instruments in the data collected by observed and systematically recorded symptoms observed at the time of conducting a study. The statement used to collect the data about the activity of students that took place during the teaching process used the method inquiry.
Techniques of Data Collection
The researcher observes the school, especially the class, to know how to teach and the abilities of the students. The action.was.the realization of the language teaching used investigative learning.in.reading.descriptive text. It was written.in an observation sheet.that explained steps.in.teaching.and learning activity.suitable.for.the.lesson.plan, supporting factors,.
The.action.of cycle.one is reviewed.by the researcher, observer and the.English.teacher. Moreover.the.purpose.of.reflection.was.to.understand.more.clearly.the topic investigated.and determine.to.undertake.further.cycles.of.action.research.to.improve.the.situations.
Techniques.of Data.Analysis
- The Improvement of Studnets’ Literal Comprehension
It showed the results or the results of the research and described more about the results. The results of the research address the answer to the research question of how es students improve their reading comprehension through Inquiry Learning Method in first grade students of MTs Almurahamah Bannyorang?, and the discussion section further information was also provided by. The result of the research, using inquiry learning method through teaching and learning of reading comprehension can improve students' performance in interpretive understanding.
Test Cycle I Cycle II
- The percentage of the Students’Literal.Comprehension.Dealing.with.Main idea and.Supporting Details
- The.Improvement.of the Students’.Reading.Comprehension
It also showed that the students' result in a literal sense is good performance. After assessment in each cycle, there was a significant improvement in students' literal reading comprehension, which is clearly evident in the chart after taking an action in the second cycle through the Inquiry Learning Method. The percentage of Students' Literal.Understanding.Acting.with.Main Idea and.Supporting Detail Idea and.Supporting Detail.
After applying the inquiry learning method, the percentage of students' main idea was 9 students (28.1%) who get quite good results, 15 students (46.9%) get right, 8 students (25%) get poor and none for the other it is not categorized. . In cycle II, the percentage of students' main idea in reading comprehension is 12 students (37.5%) received excellent results and 20 students (62.5%) received fairly good results. The above result also proves that the Question Learning Method can improve students' main idea in reading comprehension, where the result of Cycle II is higher than Cycle I and the diagnostic test is the lowest.
After using the inquiry learning method in cycle I and cycle II, the final result of students' achievement of the main concept will improve, especially where cycle II is better than D-view and cycle I. The dominant success of the student's concept in cycle II is 37.5% categorized as brilliant and 62.5%. Using an inquiry learning method to improve students' literal understanding of details; can be seen from the difference between the result of the students' diagnostic test and the students' achievements after taking action in the teaching and learning process.
The table above shows the percentage of students' performance on the diagnostic test. This indicates that 3 students (9.4%) achieved a fairly good category, 7 students (21.9%) achieved a fair score and 18 students (56.3%) achieved a bad score. 4 students (12.5%) become very poor. In Cycle II, the percentage of students' performance in supporting details is higher than in Cycle. The above result of the chat shows the literal understanding of the students in terms of the main idea.
After using the inquiry learning method in cycle I and cycle II, the result of students' achievement of the main idea improved significantly, where cycle II was higher than the D-test and cycle I. The students' achievement of the main idea in cycle II is 37.5% categorized as excellent and 62.5% categorized as fairly good, while in cycle I it was lower than cycle II. % as poor.
The chart above shows that the improvement in students' reading ability in literal comprehension was 31.5% and the improvement in reading ability was 31.5%. After evaluation in cycle I and cycle II, there was a significant improvement in the students' reading ability, where the result of cycle I was fair category and in cycle II is good category (Poor-Far-Good). The chart above showed the percentage of students' reading comprehension after using the Inquiry Learning Method.
It showed that the result of the students' reading comprehension in cycle I was higher than the D-Test, where the students' reading comprehension in cycle I is 6.3% categorized as good, 43.8%.
Discussion
The data is based on two tests; it is cycle I, cycle II and the observation result of the students' presence activity in teaching and learning process. At the first meeting in cycle I, the researcher gave material to students under the title Watch movie. In the first activity, the researcher explains the general description of the strategy that can be used and then gives the text to the students.
During the teaching learning process, some students were confused to answer the question and draw conclusions because they still had strange and low vocabulary skills. This can be seen from the reaction of the students, they have low enthusiasm in learning. They get achievements that fall short of the target, and then the researcher gives them motivation.
During the second meeting, the researcher gave the students new material entitled A beautiful day in Jogja. Here some students are more active than during the first meeting. It indicates that the result of cycle II is higher than that of cycle I, and it can be concluded that the use of this strategy is a success. After conducting the D-Test, the researcher found that the reading skills of the students of the first grade students of MTs Almurahamah Bannyorang were poor and should therefore be improved.
Based on the results from the cycles in which the students improved their literal comprehension in the D-test, cycle I and cycle II, the average score of the students in the reading comprehension used in the inquiry learning method in the D-test was 5.2, in I. cycle 6.3 and 8.4 in cycle II. Based on the findings, the inquiry learning method helps students find the main idea and supporting details in reading comprehension.
Conclusion
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