Abstract :
Reading is considered as difficult language skill to achieve. Basically, reading
involves some aspects of language such as diction, grammar, interpreting of the
text. In other words, diction is having amount of vocabulary about text. Grammar
is the way of the story constructed to know theme and plot, interpreting of the text
understands on the text deeper.
The objectives of the research were to find out how can be text analysis technique
be implemented to improve the student’s activities through extensive type
exercises in terms of narrative texts, and to find out how can text analysis
implemented to improve the research performance through extensive be of
exercises in terms of narrative texts.
This research was conducted from the consideration that the problems of the
students do not have good knowledge and teaching reading monotonous of the
second year students of Junior High School Dirgantara Bandar Lampung. The
subject of the research was the students of class VII of Junior High School
Dirgantara on 2010/2011 school year.
This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted
of planning, implementing, observing, interpreting, analyzing and reflecting.
Indicate of the research success if 80% students were actively involved in the
learning process, the teacher got score 80 or more from each aspect of text
analysis technique through extensive type exercise ad also 80% students can gain
score 60 or more in reading comprehension test.
Research result shows that during cycle 1, more than 40% of the students were
active during the teaching learning process. Relating to the teach performance,
total score of teach performance was 1043 and the average was 74. This
performance is categorized good performance but the indication of students
reading comprehension could not achieve the indicator. There were 16 students
(46%) who got score 60 or more.
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In cycle 2, the total number of students actively involved in teaching learning
process improved in second cycle. There were 86% students participated in each
activity during the teaching learning process. There were 28 students who did
well. Next, 1129 score of teacher’s performance and 80, 64, his performance
improved to be very good categorize. There were 16 students who got score 60 or
more. There were 31 students (88%) who got score 60 or more.
Referring to the finding of research, it indicates that by using text analysis
technique through extensive type exercise is applicable to improve the students’
activity, the teacher’s performance in teaching reading and also students’ reading
comprehension achievement?