Suryani, Diana (2020) The use of short story to improve reading comprehension ability of the tenth graders of MAN 1 Lampung Timur in the academic year of 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research are to determine whethertheuse ofShort story Media can improve the students’ mastery of Reading Comprehensionand students’ learning activities of tenthgrade at MAN 1 Lampung Timur in the academic year 2019/2020.The researcher had outlined the problems in this research that focused on Reading Comprehension. It is related on the problem identification that the students have low motivation to learn English especially in Reading Comprehension, they haveinsufficient Reading Comprehension, and they are also not interested about the learning method in the class. They always feel bored in Englishclass.

Furthermore, kind of this research is classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consist of planing, acting, observing and reflecting. Object of this research is the students’ reading comprehension. In collecting the data, the researcherused test, observation, documentation, and field note. This research was conducted in a collaborative study withan English teacher of the tenth grade at MAN 1 Lampung Timur.

Finally, the data confirmed that pre-test just 13% students that can fulfill Minimum Mastery Criteria (MMC)and the average score of the pre-test was 59. It provesthat the result of pre-test was unsatisfactory.Moreover, in post-test I there are 40% students that can fulfill MMC and the average score of the post-test was 68. Then,the resultin post-test II was 87% students that can fulfil MMC with the average score was 78.In addition, the student’s learning activity in the implementation of cycle I, cycle IIvery active.It means that the use of Short Story Media in Reading Comprehensioncan improve the students’Reading Comprehension and learning activity at the tenth graders of MAN 1 Lampung Timur in the academic year 2019/2020. Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Short Story Media.

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