The Implementation Of Combining Tea Party With Read Around Strategy To Improve The Students’ Achievement In Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Fauziah Hanum Lubis. 1302050142. “ The Implementation of Combining Tea Party with Read Around Strategy to Improve the Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension”. Skripsi: English Education Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. Medan 2017. The objectives of this research were to find out the improvement students‟ achievement in reading comprehension by using Combining Tea Party with Read Around Strategy. This research had been conducted by applying Classroom Action Research. The subject of this research was the eight grade students in SMP Muhammadiyah 48 Medan academic year 2016/2017 which consist 30 students. This research was analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative data. The instruments in collecting data were test item, observation sheet, and interview sheet. In conducting this research, the researcher used two cycles namley cycle I and cycle II. Before gave test in cycle I, the researcher gave pre-test. In pre-test the mean score was 46.17. In the first cycle test the mean score was 60.67 and the second cycle test the mean score was 80.67. In the first test there were one student who got points up 70 with the percentage 3.33%. The second test in cycle I there were seven students who got points up 70 with the percentage 23.33%. The third test in cycle II there were thirty students who got points up 70 with the percentage 100% which means all the students passed standard minimum score. The researcher used observation sheet and interview sheet. The teacher was actived in teaching learning process and the students was interested and not bored. It meant that there was effectiveness improvement of applying Combining Tea Party with Read Around Strategy on the students‟ achievement in reading comprehension.