Anggiri, Febrian Agam (2021) Improving Students Reading Comprehension by Using About-Point Strategy of the Tenth Graders of SMA N 1 Kibang East Lampung In the Academic Year of 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know whether using About-Point Strategy improve student’s reading comprehension. The focus on this research is reading comprehension of English students SMA N 1 Kibang. It is related to the problem identification that the students have difficulties to memorize vocabulary and difficult to understand the meaning of the words. Using About-Point strategy can be alternated in order to build the student’s active to improve students’ reading comprehension.

The kind of this research was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In this research the students were given pre test before treatment and post test after treatment. The subject of this research was 30 students in class X Isos 1 of SMA N 1 Kibang. In collecting the data the researcher used test (pre test, post test 1 cycle 1 and post test 2 cycle 2), observation, field note, and documentation.

The results of this research indicate an increase in reading comprehension of English students at the 10 grade of SMA N 1 Kibang. This can be seen from the increase in the average score of students in the pre-test and post-test. In the pre-test, the students average score was 57.83, and in the post-test the average score increased to 77.1, this score indicates that the magnitude of the increase was 19.27. And based on this results, it can be concluded that the About-Point strategy is one of the strategies that can improve students' reading comprehension, and this research can be said to be successful because the specified criteria are well achieved.

Keyword: Reading Comprehension, About-Point Strategy, Classroom Action Research

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