Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text Through THIEVES Strategy at VII grade Students MTs Negeri 2 Labuhanbatu Utara

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The aimed of this research to improve students’ reading comprehension in
descriptive text through Thieves Strategy. The subject of this this research was the
students grade VII-D of MTs Negeri 2 Labuhanbatu Utara. The students consists
of 32 students. This research by conducting Classroom Action Research. The
techniques of analyzing the data of this research applied qualitative and quantitative
data. The qualitative data were taken from observation sheet, interview and
documentation. The quantitative data were taken from reading test. The data were
taken from the result which is carry out in two cycles. The tests were given to the
students in form of pre-test, post –test I in the first cycle, and the post-test II in the
second cycle. Based on the data, there were an improvement on the students’
reading comprehension in comprehending the text from each cycle. It showed from
the mean of pre-test was 51.10. There were five students who passed or it is only
18.75%. After doing cycle I through THIEVES strategy, there were improvement
of the result of the students’ mean is 63.4. There were thirteen students passed or
40.63%. Then in cycle II, there were improvement of students’ mean is 77.8. There
were 26 students passed or 86.95%. The result of the data shows that the students
were more interest and motivate in comprehending the text and they were
enthusiastic during teaching and learning process through THIEVES strategy. The
students were more active and they seem enjoy working in the class. The result of
this research shows that THIEVES strategy significantly improve students’ reading
comprehension in comprehending text.

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