The Use of Snowball Throwing in Teaching Reading at The Second Year Students of SMPN 8 Palopo

Wahidin Wahidin,Amalia Yahya

doi:10.24256/foster-jelt.v1i1.8

Abstract

This thesis uses snowball to improve student reading with the research question, "How to use snowball throwing in SMPN's second-year students. This research employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) with cycles: first cycle, second cycle. Each cycle consists of four steps: planning. Acting, observing, reflecting. Four meetings during the research cycle. Class VIII, three samples of this study, consisted of 20 students. The study result revealed that Cycle 2 was better than Cycle one scores. During the lesson, the students showed great enthusiasm. Cycle 2's mean score is 82,75, and the percentage of student activity observation The student reading mastery increases after Cycle 2. The appropriate way to teach reading using snowball throwing is: (1) giving students more motivation to build confidence and spirit to study hard and be active in learning. (2) Before starting the learning process, more explanation of the material and giving the game than allowing the students to say what they do not understand. (3) Giving reward/gift for appreciation, (4) grouping students into a small group of 5 students. (5) Narrative text glossaries (6) Observers and writers were observing student activities. (7) Testing students to know the students ' improvement in reading after Using Snowball Throwing Learning (focus on the narrative text)

Highlights

Reading is one of the communication acts that consist of communicative activity and becomes the center for concept-building and comprehension-stimulating thinking
By considering the findings, the researcher presents the discussion of data given to the students, the section described on the efficacy of snowball throwing method in teaching reading comprehension, especially on the narrative text at SMPN 8 Palopo's Second - year students
The discussion aims to know the effectiveness of the snowball throwing method in teaching second-year SMPN8 Palopo students reading narrative text

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Introduction

Reading is one of the communication acts that consist of communicative activity and becomes the center for concept-building and comprehension-stimulating thinking. By having excellent reading skills, people can understand English written text well. Students are supposed to have the reading skills; especially junior high school students will continue their studies in high school (Iksan & Dirham, 2018). To teach students to read, a teacher often finds problems, such as finding the meaning of words in the text, difficulty explaining the purpose of the text, and difficulty explaining the text. Factors such as incapacity and low interest may account for some issues. Many teachers believe the problem is the inability to use instructional strategies or learning techniques that help students improve their readability

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