Abstract
The problem highlighted in this research is the low reading comprehension of the second semester students of English Department in State College of Islamic Studies Tulungagung that is caused by (a) the uninteresting activities in reading class; (b) the students' difficulties in understanding and retelling the ideas of the text; (c) the students' low motivation in reading habit. The theoretical review includes the nature of reading, picture series, inspiring reading, and the nature of motivation. The procedure of the research consists of identifying the problem, planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action, and reflecting the result of the research. In this research, the researcher acts as the lecturer who conducts the action research in the classroom and she is helped by her collegues. In collecting the data, the researcher uses observational technique supported with tests. In analysing the data, it was used t-test non independent, the researcher uses the observation, questionaire, interview, students ‘work supported with the video recording and photograph,then also compares the result of the students' pre-test and post-test to answer the research questions. There is significant improvement in the result of pre-test and post-test of cycle 1 and 2. In cycle 1, t0 (6.89766) is higher than tt (1.73) and in cycle 2, t0 (10.8622) is also higher than tt (1.73). From these two results, therefore, h0 is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (ha) is accepted. By retelling the ideas and summarizing the text using interesting media especially picture series can increase the students' motivation in reading class especially to improve their reading comprehension.
Highlights
The problem highlighted in this research is the low reading comprehension of the second semester students of English Department in State College of Islamic Studies Tulungagung that is caused by (a) the uninteresting activities in reading class; (b) the students' difficulties in understanding and retelling the ideas of the text; (c) the students' low motivation in reading habit
Establishing encouragement among students to read is not easy. It is seen on their responses of joining English reading class, most of the Indonesian students confess that they lack of reading habit
Picture series could be one product of the their own creation to tell any stories to make their friends understand with what they talk about. It does discuss how the the students look for the material and create their own picture series
Summary
By retelling the ideas and summarizing the text using interesting media especially picture series can increase the students' motivation in reading class especially to improve their reading comprehension. It is seen on their responses of joining English reading class, most of the Indonesian students confess that they lack of reading habit The first problem, they feel reluctant to read, they have a task to read the scientific material. Promoting reading habit as English reading skill should be taught by developing the lecturer’s initiative to choose the suitable material and good design in teaching that subject Facing and seeing those problems above, it makes the lecturer thinks and considers to find out the appropriate technique in teaching reading class. Picture series relates to one of the media to develop creativity in delivering their ideas to make other friends understand with what they have read. Not many students realize that there is a lot of values which can be considered as moral values in local culture such as folktales, myths legend, myths and other novels
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