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Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension By Using Think-Aloud Strategy Lilis Sholihah; Jusika Sari
Jurnal Pedagogy Vol 6 No 2 (2018): Pedagogy: Journal of English Language Teaching
Publisher : State Institute for Islamic Studies IAIN of Metro

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The problems of this research is the students are difficult to find the information from the text. The objective of this class action research are: (1) to know how far Think-aloud strategy can improve the students’ reading comprehension and; (2) to know how the process of teaching reading by using Think-Aloud Strategy at eleventh grade of SMK Kartikatama Metro in academic year 2017/2018. The method of this research is clasroom action research that consist of two cycles. The subject of this research is the students of Accounting Class eleventh grade of SMK Kartikatama Metro that consist of 30 students. The research instruments in this research are observation, interview sheets, and test. The result of the data analysis in this research are pre-test until post-test 2 that the average of pre-test was 60.93. Then, the implementation of think-aloud strategy in teaching, there is an increase of 3.65 become 64.58. Then, in the cycle 2 the average of students’ score is 80.17. Based on the teaching and learning activities, pre-test until post-test 2 are increased. From the cycle 2, It is about 80 % of the students can achieve the minimum passing criteria (KKM), so this research is success. The conclusion is the implementation of think-aloud strategy can improve students' reading comprehension.
USING DISCUSSION BOARD AS THE MEDIUM TO IMPROVE THE SKILL IN WRITING A RECOUNT TEXT Lilis Sholihah
Jurnal Pedagogy Vol 1 No 1 (2013): Pedagogy: Journal of English Language Teaching
Publisher : State Institute for Islamic Studies IAIN of Metro

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This study is aimed to improve the students’ skill in writing a recount text through the use of discussion board. The subject consists of twenty seven eighth graders. This study was carried out in one cycle. The cycle consisted of five meetings including the registration process on discussion board, prewriting and drafting in face to face classroom environment, and the process of revising, editing and publishing stage on discussion board. The data of the study were taken from the observation checklist, field notes, questionnaire and the students’ final product. The findings of the study revealed that the discussion board was successful in improving the skill in writing a recount text of the eighth graders. The improvement was indicated by the increase of the students’ writing scores, the students’ participation in writing activities and the students’ positive responses after the implementation of discussion board.