Abstract
Reading comprehension is the process of making meaning from the texts. In this study, the students’ problems related to the students’ difficulties in gaining information from the reading texts. CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition) method was selected to solve those problems. Thus the main purpose of this current investigation is to test whether or not CIRC brings positive effects toward the students reading comprehension of descriptive texts. This is an experimental study, which was conducted at grade ninth students of SMP Negeri 1 Gaung. The samples consisted of 48 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used a test that is formed in the multiple-choice test. After conducting the research, it found the tobserved was 7.14, which was higher than the ttable score in the degree of significance 1 % and 5% (2.687<7.12>2.410). It means that the alternative hypothesis (H1) of the research is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. In other words, the use of CIRC method toward students reading comprehension of descriptive text at grade ninth of SMP Negeri 1 Gaung is effective.
Highlights
Based on the curriculum 2013, the students are required to master four basic skills of English namely: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
AND DISCUSSION Looking back to the purpose of the study, it is to find out the effectiveness of the use of Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition (CIRC) method toward reading comprehension of descriptive text in SMP Negeri 1 Gaung
The researcher got the data in two classes; experimental class (IX-A) and control class (IX-B)
Summary
Based on the curriculum 2013, the students are required to master four basic skills of English namely: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. Reading is one of the important skill is needed to master by the students. Reading is not easy for them, when the researcher came to the school and observed the students, many students found the difficulty in finding the topic and main idea, finding supporting details, analyze the reference, make an inference and they found the difficulty in finding the meaning of words. These problems influenced the students having low reading score including descriptive text. Descriptive text is not too difficult, because the students always find it in daily activity, when they describe something, person, place or everything, so they have created a description
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