Abstract:
This study dealt with improving the students’ critical reading ability
through whole brain teaching model. The objective of the research were to find
out the improvement of students’ critical reading ability by using whole brain
teaching model application and also to know how students’ enthusiastic in
learning by using whole brain teaching model could improve the students’ critical
reading ability. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The
subject of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 8
Medan. This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle
consisted of two meetings. The instrument of research was test, observation sheet,
and questionnaires. The students’ showed their activeness and enthusiastic activity
when they were learning reading text with whole brain teaching model in their
classroom. And the students’ improvements score and data could be seen by the
mean of the students pre-test 56.03 (fifty six point three), cycle 1 69.82 (sixty nine
point eighty two), cycle 2 91.37 (ninty one point thirty seven). The result showed
the improvement of the students’ score from the pre-test to second cycle. The
percentage of the student’s minimum score of 70 in the pre-test was 3.44% or one
students’, and 65.5% of post-test I in cycle 1 and 100% in cycle 2 or all students
got all more than 70 score as the minimal criteria level. It meant that the
implementation by applying whole brain teaching model in teaching critical
reading was effective as it could improve students’ critical reading ability
