Ummi Khaerati Syam, S.Pd, M.Pd, the Head of English Education Department in FKIP UNISMUH Makassar. The great appreciation and sincere thanks to her consultants Ummi Khaerati Syam, S.Pd, M.Pd, as the first consultant and Nunung Anugrawati S.Pd.,M.Pd as the second consultant for their invaluable clear perspective, professional expertise and motivation to complete this thesis. Special thanks to Surullah ST, Irwan Mattepuang S.Pd, Fitrah S.Ip, Akbar Perdana ST, Syawal and my whole big family of OMPI SUL-SEL for all their support, knowledge, time and motivation.
Improving students' reading comprehension through biopoems (pre-experimental research in second grade of SMA Negeri 8 Takalar in academic year 2017/2018). This research aimed to find out the effect of Bio-poem on reading comprehension in second grade students of SMA Negeri 8 Takalar, which focused on the main idea and specific information in reading Bio-poem. The sample of this study consisted of the second grade students, with a total number of subjects of 120 students.
The research findings indicated that second grade students of SMA Negeri 8 Takalar were very low in reading comprehension before the treatment, but after treatment, their reading comprehension improved significantly. The conclusion can be drawn that implementing Bio Poem is effective in improving the students' reading comprehension.
INTRODUCTION
- Problem Statement
- Objective of the Study
- Significance of the Study
- Scope of the Study
Poetry teaching should engage the students to prepare them to visualize, search for main ideas and understand the poems. The students must be addressed in the understanding of poems, both in terms of structure and content. During the comprehension process, students read and identify key points or information from poems where the information is helpful to students in improving their performance and literary competence in the field of poems.
Therefore, the author conducts a research entitled "Improving the students' reading comprehension through biopoem". In order to get better order about the discussion of the study, the author wants to formulate a research problem whether there is any effect of Biogedig on the reading. To get better order about the discussion of the study, the author wants to compile objectives of the study to find out what is the effect of Biopoem on the reading comprehension of the Second Grade SMA 8 of TAKALAR in Academic Year 2016/2017.
It is expected that the results of this research will be useful information and reference for English learners and for teachers to add information about teaching and learning in the classroom, especially for Reading Class. In order to avoid misunderstandings in the interpretation of the problem, the writer would like to limit the scope of the study whether there is any effect of Biopoem on improving students' vocabulary, which focuses on literal comprehension, namely the main ideas and specific information in Reading Biopoem.
REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
Some Pertinent Ideas
- The Concept of Reading
- The Concept of Comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Concept of Bio-Poem
Brown (1989) explains that extensive reading is done "to gain a general understanding of a text that is usually somewhat longer (a book, long article or essay, etc.). The goals of extensive reading are to build the reader's confidence and enjoyment. It is not surprising that reading one of the important skills in learning a foreign language. If students only read and do not understand the content of the text, it means that there is a failure in understanding.
We can interpret that reading comprehension is the ability to understand or acquire the passage. Miller (2003) argues that reading comprehension is the ability of students to understand; when they read, they should not only be able to read the words fluently, but also be able to tell the story accurately. From the above explanation, we can conclude that reading comprehension is an active recognition process of the reader to construct the meaning of the text.
In other words, reading comprehension is the process of understanding the author's message by combining the meaning of the text and the images in the reader's mind. These are very important abilities to support students' development in reading comprehension. In this ability, students should be able to remember a fair proportion of the factual information or ideal expressed in a passage.
In this ability, the students should be able to choose the important and relevant point, and the students should be able to understand the meaning and the significance of the fact and ideas. d) The ability to draw conclusions from what has been read. The most important thing in making the inference is the ability of the student to know what the author means in material. e) The ability to reach general conclusion and judgement. Usually poems consist of some stanzas and they have similar sound at the end of the line.
4 Student response includes at least 2 key details from the passage that support the main idea of the passage. This means that the students' average score in Reading Comprehension improved from the Pretest to the Posttest. This indicated that the use of Biogedig was effective in improving the students' reading comprehension.
As miller (2003) explains that reading comprehension is the ability of students to understand when they read, they should not only be able to read the words fluently but also tell the story accurately. A bio poem can improve the reading ability of SMA NEGERI 8 TAKALAR second grade students, especially in finding the main idea and specific information.
Conceptual Framework
Hypothesis
RESEARCH METHOD
Population and Sample
The population of this research included four classes consisting of 30 students per class. Due to the small number of population using Random Sampling Technique, the researcher chose class XI IPA1 because this class is heterogeneous.
Variables and Indicators
These were the dependent variable and the independent variable, which was a variable that affects another variable. The independent variable was Using Bio Poem; an important process for improving a student's vocabulary in reading comprehension. The dependent variable consisted of students' vocabulary achievement focusing on main idea and specific information.
The main idea is the "big point" or most important idea that the writer is communicating to the reader. It is the guiding idea, all the other supporting details in the text or in a paragraph should tell us more about the main idea. Supporting details are the evidence such as reasons or examples that support main ideas.
The instrument of the Research
3 Student response includes at least 2 details with at least one key detail from the passage that supports the main idea.
Procedures of Data Collection
To find out the significance difference between the pre-test and post-test by calculating the value of the test. The findings of the research covered with the description of the result of the data collected through the test. The table above showed that the students' average score in Main Idea was 7.3, the students' average score in Specific Information was 7.5, and then the students' average score in Literal Understanding was 7.4.
In other words, teaching reading with bio poem, especially in productive skills, can increase students' reading comprehension. This section presents a discussion of the discussion of the result of the data analysis. The discussion is aimed at describing the student's reading comprehension after the lesson using the Bio poem.
Based on the data collected through the pre-test and post-test, it showed that the students' reading comprehension through biopoem, especially in productive skill of the second grade students of SMA NEGERI 8 TAKALAR after the treatment was better than before the treatment. This can be seen by the difference between the average score of the pre-test and post-test, where the average score of the post-test was higher than of the post-test was higher than the average score of the pre-test. This can be seen in average score of Main Idea improved from 6 to 7.3, average score of Specific Information also improved from 6.2 to 7.5 and then the average score of Literal Comprehension improved from 6.1 to 7 ,4.
This technique could help students develop their minds when conveying or changing information in the form of tables and diagrams in sentences or paragraphs. During the pre-test, some students were not clear about the main idea of their reading ability, difficulties in determining the main idea and specific information, while the reading comprehension of the students in the post-test has improved. It is determined by the performance of the students after the treatment. In other words, I would say that in understanding the text, the two main aspects that the students should have are the main idea and the specific information of the text.
From the discussion above, it showed that the second grade students of SMA NEGERI 8 TAKALAR have reading abilities by using Bio Poem. Finally, the researcher concludes that the use of Bio Poem in reading can improve students' language competence. It showed that the t-test value was higher than the t-table value (5.4> 1.699), while the mean score of the students' pretest (6.1) was lower than the mean score of the students' posttest (7.4) by the percentage of student improvement 21.3.
The English teacher should provide material in the form of biopoems when teaching reading as one strategy to increase students' reading comprehension. The teacher should create a good teaching atmosphere in the classroom to stimulate the students' interest in learning to read English.
