<![CDATA[AbstractThis research was conducted to solve the problems that were the students’ lack of reading in their first reading, and to find out whether the phonics technique can increase the student’s reading ability. The purposes of this research were: “To obtain how well phonics to improve students’ pronouncing ability†to the students of TK Kalam Kudus Pontianak. In this research, phonics is applied as one technique in order to increase young learner’s reading skill. Phonics is one strategy to help young children in pronouncing words or sentences to measure students’ pronouncing ability. It is used to help students represent sound or sounds. For the young learners, it works as a guideline when they start reading, because they can ready a word or sentences but pronounce its sound. The method of this research was Classroom Action Research. The research was conducted in three cycles. Each of cycle consists of four stages that is planning, action, observing, and reflecting stage. The subject of this research was 15 students who are the students of Kindergarten B TK Kalam Kudus Pontianak. The finding proves that phonics technique is effective to improve the students’ reading ability. The result of this research is the Kindergarten B students of TK Kalam Kudus Pontianak has shown their significant progress in improving reading by using phonics in each cycle: first cycle 1.4 point (very poor), second cycle 2.3 point (average) and third cycle 3.1 point (good). This means that phonics in one technique which is useful to improve students’ reading skill.Keywords: Phonics, Young Learners, Pronouncing, Classroom Action Reseach     ]]>
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