Enhancing Students' Ability to Improve Reading Comprehension through ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activities) Method (A Action Research in the Second Grade Classroom in SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar), under the thesis of English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Education and Training, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar . This research aimed to find out the improvement of students' reading comprehension through the ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activities) method in the second grade of SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar. The research instrument was observation and reading tests showed that the students have high scores in reading performance.
The findings of this study indicated that the improvement of the reading comprehension of the students through the ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activity) method and the participation of the students in the teaching and learning process. The improvement of students' reading ability, viewed from Literal and Interpretative through the ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activity) method, where reading material was presented in Class XI IPS of SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar, significantly improves students' ability. The researchers' findings indicated that using the ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activity) method could increase students' ability in reading comprehension, in terms of literal and interpretive.
The result of the students' activity in the first meeting of cycle I was 54.16% and then it became 84.16% in the fourth meeting of second cycle. This means that the teacher can reach the target 7, it indicated from ECOLA (Extending Concept Language Activities) Method can make the students more active and enthusiastic in learning process.
INTRODUCTION
- Problem Statement
- Objective of the research
- Significance of the research
- Scope of the research
In this research, the goal is to solve this problem until the students have a good score while the standard curriculum is 6.5. The technique of teaching English is to develop specifically to improve reading comprehension because the teaching technique affects the success of students. In general, the reading techniques found in high school are comprehension question-answering exercises, and can therefore improve reading teaching, so that the students' activity involves in the reading class, especially in the given tasks.
Students should recognize and know the meaning of words or lexicals as soon as they see them in a reading section. The students tend to read word by word, stop, think, look up the dictionary and then move on to the next sentences. By the time they reach the end of the sentences, they may lose track of their meaning. The students can make it easy to make reading a fun activity, the teacher should try to find a method.
The result of the research is expected to be useful information and a reference for the English learners in general, especially for the students at the Senior High School. The scope of this research is limited to the use of ECOLA (Extending Concept Through Language Activities) in improving the students' literal (main idea and supporting idea) and interpretive reading comprehension (summary and summary) through ECOLA in the second year student' of SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
- Concept of Reading
- Reading Comprehension
- Theoritical Framwork
- Research Design
- Research procedures
- Research Subject
- Research Variables And Indicators
- Research instrument
- Technique of Data Collection
- Technique of Data Analysis
Learning in primary school, the role of the teacher is very important to guide the students in reading goals. The purpose of this phase is to develop the student(s) ability to self-monitor and begin to learn to express what they do not understand. They are expected to discuss their interpretation of the results, compare the answers and change their conclusions.
Developmentally, the reading lesson will be interrupted if one of the students does something. During the discussion, students can change the interpretation of the results and the results can be read individually. Gephart (1970) defines reading as an interaction by which meaning encoded in visual stimuli by an author becomes meaning in the reader's body.
Critical reading, that is, evaluating what is being read and critically examining the thoughts of the writer. After collecting the data from the students, the researcher classified the students' score.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
Discussion
In this section, the discussion focuses on the interpretation of findings derived from the outcome of findings on students' literal (main idea, supporting idea) and interpretive (summary of conclusion) reading comprehension. The application of the Extending Concept Through Language Activity (ECOLA) method in the teaching of reading comprehension at the XI IPS SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar can improve the students' performance and their ability to understand the reading comprehension material in Cycle I and Cycle II within the learning process in XI IPS SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar the special English subject is 70. Before conducting a classroom action research through the Extending Concept Through Language Activity (ECOLA) method, the researcher conducts a diagnostic test to assess the prior knowledge of measure students' English reading.
After conducting a diagnostic test, the researcher found that the reading comprehension of the students at the XI IPS SMA Perguruan Islam Makassar was poor, so it needs to be improved. To improve the students' reading comprehension, the researcher decided to use Extending Concept Through Language Activity (ECOLA). In cycle I, the researcher found that the students were still having difficulty and confusion in understanding the text.
The average score for students' literal reading comprehension in cycle I was 59.15 and in cycle II was 79.17. Finally, the mean score for reading comprehension Extending Concept Through Language Activities (ECOLA) method in cycle II 77.08 and 51.87 in cycle I with students' improvement from cycle I to cycle II 48.6%. This means that the pupils' reading comprehension was significantly improved through the Extending Concept Through Language Activities (ECOLA) method.
The observation result of students' activity in the teaching and learning process improved significantly through the Extending Concept Through Language Activity (ECOLA) method in improving the students' reading comprehension. This was evidenced by the improvement in the average score of the students' activity in Cycle I, which was 65.83% and 78.76% in Cycle II, with an improvement of 13%. The researcher might say that teaching reading through the Extending Concept Through Language Activity (ECOLA) method is a good way to improve the students.
For the next researcher, they use Extending Concept Through Language Activities (ECOLA) Method to do researchers because it can give enough opportunity to the students to practice their reading comprehension. Students are expected to improve their reading comprehension in learning to read with the Expanding Concept through Language Activities (ECOLA) Method. THE RESULT OF THE STUDENTS' READING TEST IN DIAGNOSTIC TEST OF SMA PERGURUAN ISLAM MAKASSAR.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Suggestion
It is suggested that the teacher helps the students to enrich the literal reading comprehension of word meaning and main ideas. Improving students' reading comprehension using scrambled picture stories and scrambled paragraphs in teaching reading comprehension. Improving the Reading Comprehension Ability of Second Year MA Students Syech Yusuf Sungguminasa through Guided Reading Activity (DRA).
The matriculation formula is the same as last year, i.e. 40% of the value of the school and 60% of the value of the state exam. First, building a learning culture based on religious teachings and values of national character, faithful, pious, honest, clean, polite, intelligent, disciplined, creative and do good as responsible. Kedua, honest UN success and achievements, and third, receiving and implementation of anti-corruption education. But in preparation for the UN, the tendency was against educational values, a natural learning process full of creativity, a process that still relates to the abilities and realities of the students and the school.
In this regard, the UN has not been a solution to measure student success rates. Therefore, it is rather difficult for us to have too great expectations of the success of the UN as a measure of success in the learning process, because during the preparation, implementation and post-examination process there are many processes or measures that take place both by schools and , teachers, students and even an actual conflict zone with the spirit of education itself. During the UN diaggapkan as political tools to raise the image of the school, teachers, the region, the implementation of the UN during the same will not be the answer.
In addition to the improvement of learning and intense resignation before the UN, we would pray and ask for the blessing of people nearby, as parents, teachers and other relatives should be done, because success is not determined only by intellect, but also by spiritual strength, our closeness to the Almighty God. Because the scourge of the UN is said to be in the estuary of the learning process during the 3-year course. Although the important educational success is student success, they gain knowledge that can be accepted and applied in real life, including the emotional aspects of student success.
Various methods are being sought to ensure that the schools have 100% of their students pass the exam. Starting with students' inability to answer questions - because the exam is a minimum level of students' ability to solve problems with stress and self-confidence, which prevented the students from answering the questions properly. This is likely due to students' inability to cope with the stress prior to and during the National Examination.
Stress can cause the students' skills and memory to decline during the state exam. In this way, it is an expression of students' willingness to learn, but this method is not effective because students' concentration will shorten the time for answering the exam. The physical condition was tired of receiving teaching materials from the morning to reduce the student's mind.
With an effective way of learning, students are expected to be physically and mentally ready for the exam.
