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Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text Through THIEVES Strategy at VII grade Students MTs Negeri 2 Labuhanbatu Utara
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Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara Medan
Author
Sari, Nanda
Subject
425 English grammar 
Datestamp
2020-03-23 05:02:32 
Abstract :
The aimed of this research to improve students? reading comprehension in descriptive text through Thieves Strategy. The subject of this this research was the students grade VII-D of MTs Negeri 2 Labuhanbatu Utara. The students consists of 32 students. This research by conducting Classroom Action Research. The techniques of analyzing the data of this research applied qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were taken from observation sheet, interview and documentation. The quantitative data were taken from reading test. The data were taken from the result which is carry out in two cycles. The tests were given to the students in form of pre-test, post ?test I in the first cycle, and the post-test II in the second cycle. Based on the data, there were an improvement on the students? reading comprehension in comprehending the text from each cycle. It showed from the mean of pre-test was 51.10. There were five students who passed or it is only 18.75%. After doing cycle I through THIEVES strategy, there were improvement of the result of the students? mean is 63.4. There were thirteen students passed or 40.63%. Then in cycle II, there were improvement of students? mean is 77.8. There were 26 students passed or 86.95%. The result of the data shows that the students were more interest and motivate in comprehending the text and they were enthusiastic during teaching and learning process through THIEVES strategy. The students were more active and they seem enjoy working in the class. The result of this research shows that THIEVES strategy significantly improve students? reading comprehension in comprehending text. 
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Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara Medan