Peptiyana, Lia (2013) Improving Students Reading Comprehension Though Short Story (Spoof) at The Seventh Graders of SMPN 3 Batanghari. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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Abstract

Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastering by the students after following a set of English instruction in School. To promote positive attitude towards reading, teacher must provide the students with reading teks that match the students' level and interest. Learning spoof is likely to be more efective learning sentence by sentence in short. In learning spoof the students would be more creative than learning another reading text, because in short story, uses the simple word or it is fulfilled with the daily conversation. Therefore, it could be assumed that spoof could improve the students' reading comprehension. There were so many medias which could be used to increasc the students' reading comprehension.

The objective of this research was to investigate whether the use of spoof text can be used to improve the students' reading comprehension at the seventh graders of SMPN 3 Batanghari. in this case the researcher conducted Classroom Action Researcher (CAR) which was done in two cycles. The subject of this research was 26 students of seventh grade Junior High School 3 Batanghari East Lampung. Collecting the data in this rcscach is test, observation, documentation and field note. The research was conducted through collaborative.

Based on an analysis in this research, the researcher would like to describe the conclusion that the students' reading comprehension can be increased by using short story especially spoof text in learning process. It can be seen on the progressing of the average score in every cycle, the average result score of pre-test and post-test I showed that there was progressing score. The average score pre-test in cycle I = 56.7, and in post-test I= 64.2. And then the average score at post-test II= 84.2, it was increasing 20 points better than post-test

Based on the result observation, students activity in the implementation of cycle I was 60% and cycle II was 83% active, was increase 23%. Based on the result above, it could be said that spoof text could increase students reading comprchension. This tecnique made the students were interested and motivated in the class. So that , they felt so enjoy to do task. And, it also made them easier in studying the materials.

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