Muhsonah, Faridatun (2015) Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability by Using Talking Stick Method at The Eleventhgrades of SMK Roudhotul Falah Sukadana East Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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vINCREASING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY BY USING TALKING STICK METHOD AT THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMK ROUDHOTUL FALAH SUKADANA EAST LAMPUNGABSTRACTBYFARIDATUN MUHSONAHReading is one of the important aspects in language learning. By reading, the learners get knowledge and information. Moreover, students are often ignored to mastering this skill. The researcher finds the condition at the eleventh graders of SMK Roudhotul Falah Sukadanaeast lampungwhere many students have difficultiesin English learning especially in reading comprehension, so it caused the result of learning is low. Hence, to increase the students’ reading comprehension ability the writer uses Talking Stick method in learning process. The purpose of this paper is to know whether the using Talking Stick method can increase the students’ reading comprehension ability in English learning. Talking Stick method is one of method based on cooperative that make the students more active and enjoyable in learning process.

The form of this research was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consist of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The subjects of this research were 19 students at the eleventh graders of SMK Roudhotul Falah Sukadanaeast lampung. In collecting the data, the writerused test, observation and documentation. This research was conducted collaboratively with an English teacher of SMK Roudhotul Falah Sukadana that was Ms. Istian Safitri, S.Pd.

The result of this study shows that by using Talking Stick method has positive role in increasing the reading comprehension ability at the eleventh graders of SMK Roudhotul Falah Sukadanaeast lampung. It can be proved by the students’ average score from pre-test to post-test. The average score in pre-test was 48.42 and in post-test I was 57.87 became 72.89. It means that the using of Talking Stick method can increase the students’ reading comprehension ability.

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