Suprihatin, Linda (2019) The Use Of Plus Minus Interesting ( PMI ) Strategy To Improve The Students’ Reading Narrative Skill Among The Eighth Grade Students at SMPN 1 Batanghari East Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purposes of this research are to show that using plus minus interesting strategy can improve the students‟ reading skill and students‟ learning activities at the eight graders of SMPN 1 Batanghari in academic year 2018/2019.The writer had outlined the problem in this research that focused on reading skill. It is related on the problem identification that the students have low motivation to learn English especially in reading, they get the difficulties to comprehend the main idea and information from the text, and they are also not interested about the learning method in the class. They always feel bored in reading subject.

The 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 skill. In collecting the data, the writer used test, observation and documentation. This research was conducted which an English teacher of SMPN 1 Batanghari that was mrs. Larasati, S.Pd.

Finally, the data confirmed that pre-test just 17% students that can fulfill Minimum Mastery Criteria (MMC) and the average score of the pre-test was 43. it can say that the result of pre-test was unsatisfactory. And, in post-test I there are 56,66% students that can fulfill MMC and the average score of the post-test was62. Then, the resultin post-test II was 80% students that can fulfil MMC with the average score was 73,67. It means that the use of plus minus interesting strategy in reading can improve the student‟s reading skill at the eight graders of SMPN 1 Batangahri in academic year 2018/2019.

Keywords : Reading Skill, Plus Minus Interesting Strategy

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