Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016)

Improving the Students’ Reading Ability at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 5 Polut through Running Record Method (A Classroom Action Research)

Andi Mangnguntungi Sudirman (Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Feb 2016

Abstract

This research is a classroom action research that focused on improving the students’ reading ability through Running Record Method. Two cycles had been conducted, where each cycle consisted of four meetings. It employed reading test as instrument. A number of subjects of the research were 30 students conducted of 11 women and 19 men. At diagnostic test, the average of students’ score in determine main ideas and contents of reading ability before implementation Running Record Method is poor (50.75), but after implementation Running Record Method in cycle I the assessment of their reading ability improves (60.44), is greater than diagnostic test. This means there is an improvement of the students’ reading ability. But, this is classified as fairly, so the researcher decides to organizer in cycle II. Assessment of cycle II is greater than from cycle I (72.89 > 60.44) it classified as good which means there is improvement of the students’ reading ability.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

25409190

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ethical Lingua is an online academic journal published by Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo. The journal publish scholarly articles on the scope of Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Language Curriculum and Material Development; Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; Cultural Issues in ...