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Improving Students' Reading Skills Using Writing Techniques in Second Year Students of SMA Muhammadiyah 9 Makassar", under the thesis of Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Makassar Muhammadiyah University, under the supervision of Hj. The results of this research showed that the note-taking technique improved the reading skills of students who focused on critical (own opinion) and creative (purpose of the text). This indicated that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and the null hypothesis was rejected and that there was a significant difference between the students' reading skills before and after using the writing technique.

Therefore, I use this method to test whether the writing technique can improve the student's reading skill or not. It is important to be critical when writing and to write or draw only what you will need later and to record the information in a format that is easy to understand. The lecturer or author will organize his material in a logical way, so try to use your organizational skills when taking notes.

Based on the above example, the researcher was inspired to conduct a research entitled “Improving students' reading skills through note-taking technique in second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah 9 Makassar”.

Problem Statement

Effective note-taking should shorten your study time, increase your knowledge retention, and give you a summarized list of resources for your future projects.

Objective of the Research

Significance of the Research The benefits of this research are

For the teachers, it was expected that the research would make a good contribution for the English teacher to improve students' reading skills. For the researcher, it was expected that this would give a new insight into increasing English reading ability. The scope of this research will focus on improving the students' reading skill by using Note-Taking technique which was used as a pre-experimental research in the classroom with the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah 9 Makassar in relation to the students' reading skills.

This researcher focuses on the students' critical understanding especially in giving one's own opinion about the text and creative understanding especially the purpose of the text.

The Concept of Note Taking Technique

Note-Taking Tips
Popular Note-Taking Methods
Cornell Note-taking System
Why Students Should Be Taking Notes
The Important of Note Taking
Seven Key Benefits of Effective Note-taking
Note-Taking from Readings

Scroll around this page to see what your note paper should look like. Then take and use your notes. When you review your notes, reduce each idea in them to key words or key phrases. If you don't know the right answer, study your notes and repeat your answer out loud.

The best way to prepare for the test is to review or review your notes regularly. If you can summarize your notes in your own words, you will really understand the facts and ideas in them. Your notes should be accurate and complete, including all necessary diagrams, key points, theories, definitions, formulas and facts, so that you can study from your notes without re-reading the textbook.

Note the textbook page number on your notes so that if you do not understand, you can quickly find the textbook page for reference.

The Concepts of Reading

When reading an academic text, the reader recreates the meaning of the text, along with the author. The killing function is lonely, we take the reading function as a lonely killer when we read with a purpose only to fill the free time. Dalman in Nurmasita (2009:20) states that the degree of understanding desired will depend in part on the reader's intention.

One of the characteristics of the efficient reader is the extent to which he can adjust the extent of his objective. One of the most common reasons for reading is to get a general idea of a selection. Reading to find the answer to one more question is one of the general purposes of reading in primary school.

The answers are relatively easy to find when the questions are asked in the correct writing words.

Levels of Reading Comprehension

Literal Reading
Interpretative Reading
Critical Reading
Creative Reading

All writers have a purpose when they write, and usually a writer will select or emphasize facts and details that support his or her purpose, ignoring facts that do not support his reading. Critical reading is actually a two-step process: Reading for Comprehension to understand and analyze what students have read. When they are asked to evaluate a piece of writing, they need to be sure that you clearly understand what they have read.

Creative reading involves going beyond the material presented by the author, creative reading requires the readers to think as the reading is done just like critical reading, and it also requires the readers to use their imagination. While no personal reaction is wrong, it cannot be unfounded; they must relate to the content of the text and reflect a literal understanding of the material. An example of a comprehension question that requires a personal answer is: what do you like or dislike about this article.

As with an assessment question, students must use their literal understanding and their own knowledge to answer.

Conceptual Framework

Hypothesis

Research Design

The researcher used the total sampling technique, which was the sample selected from the entire population.

Research Variables and Indicators

Research Instruments

Procedure of Collecting Data

The Improvement of the Students’ Reading Learning in Critical Comprehension Students’ score of Pre-test and Post-test classified into some criteria and the

Based on table 4.1 above, it showed that students' post-test score improved after teaching reading comprehension in terms of critical comprehension using note-taking technique. The average score of the students in the pre-test was 41.25 and after the test it would be 57.

The Improvement of the Students’ Reading Achievment in Creative Comprehension

Improvement

Significance Testing

The table above shows about the comparison between the students' t-test and t-table to improve critical reading comprehension and creative reading comprehension after using Note Take technique. It can be concluded that there was significant difference between the results of the student's reading skills before and after the use of Note-taking technique. This also means that null hypothesis (Ho): The use of Note-Taking Technique is not effective in improving the students' reading skills among the Second Year students of SMA Muhammadiyah 9 Makassar is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1)The use of.

COMPARISON

Discussion

The Increasing of the Students’ Critical Reading Comprehension
The Increasing of the Students’ Creative Reading Comprehension
The Significant Difference of T-test and T-table

In this section, the result of the findings was clearly explained for the increase of students' critical reading comprehension in terms of giving thought and creative reading comprehension focused on the purpose of the text. In the findings, the data showed that the increase in students' reading skills was significant after analyzing the t-test and t-table value. Reading comprehension in terms of critical comprehension was about understanding to know one's opinion about the text, based on the topic given by the researcher and also suitable to the needs and desires of the students.

As Burns and Smith in Murna (2012) state that critical evaluation occurs only when our students understand the ideas and information presented by the writer. The result of the data analysis with the reading test shows that the students' critical understanding in the sense of giving their own opinion has increased. Regarding critical understanding in the pre-test, students were deficient in providing their own opinion about the topic. Based on the t-test result, the researcher found that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results.

This means that there was a significant difference between the pre-test before and after teaching and learning, which was processed using the Note-Taking technique. Thus, by using Note-Taking technique, students' reading skills could be improved, especially in critical comprehension. In addition, Creative understanding in reading, It was an important aspect in reading comprehension, because a good reading should be knowing the purpose of the text.

The result of the data analysis through the reading test shows that the students' creative. The students lacked to find the purpose of the text that was related to the topic. The researcher could conclude that the use of note-taking technique was one of the good techniques that could improve students' reading skills in reading the second year students' SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 9 MAKASSAR in the academic year could be improved in critical comprehension and creative comprehension.

It means that using note-taking technique in teaching reading skills can improve students' reading skills. Note taking was interesting and useful for students studying English as a foreign language because it can improve students' reading skills.

Conclusion

Suggestion

The impact of the Cornell note-taking method on student performance in a high school family and consumer science class. Effects of online note-taking formats and self-monitoring instructions on learning from online text: Using technology to enhance self-regulated learning. Long ago, in a small town near the beach in West Sumatera, there lived a woman and her son, Malin Kundang.

Malin Kundang's father died when he was still a baby and he had to live with his mother with difficulty. He usually went to the sea to catch fish and bring them to his mother or sell them in town. One day, when Malin Kundang was sailing as usual, he saw a merchant ship attacked by a small group of pirates.

Many years later, Malin Kundang became a rich merchant with a huge ship, a lot of merchandise, many ship crews and a beautiful wife. The villagers recognized him and the news quickly spread around the town: Malin Kundang had become a rich man and now he is here. She begged Malin Kundang three times and shouted at him three times. Finally, Malin Kundang said to her, “Enough, old woman.

His huge ship was wrecked and it was too late for Malin Kundang to apologize. Write a note, students write a note in short sentences and include important points in the text.