Dian Mefita Sari , 2201407157 (2011) The Use of CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition) to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension and Writing (an Experimental Research in XI Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Banjarnegara in the Academic Year 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project concerned with teaching reading comprehension and writing by doing CIRC as one type of cooperative learning. The purpose of this experimental research was to know the significant difference of students’ reading comprehension and writing between students who were taught by using CIRC and those who were taught by using conventional method. This experimental research used pre test-post test control group design which was conducted on the XI grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Banjarnegara in the academic year of 2010/2011. There were two classes used as the sample of this research (XI IPA 1 and XI IPA 2). The experimental group (XI IPA 1) consisted of 32 students and the control group (XI IPA 2) was 31 students. Besides, there was another class that had similar level of competence used for tryout (XI IPA 4). In doing this research, there were five meetings overall for experimental group (XI IPA 1). In the first meeting, the pre-test was given to the students. CIRC as the treatment of this research was done in the second, third, and fourth meeting. In the last meeting, the post-test was administered to the students to know their improvement. The pre-test and post-test were administered in both classes (experimental and control group). The result of the pre-test showed that the mean score of reading in the pre-test was 72.87 while in the post-test was 78.75 for experimental group. Meanwhile, for control group, the mean score of reading in the pre-test was 71.09 while in the post-test was 73.16. The mean score of writing in the pre-test was 17.61 while in the post-test was 20.25 for experimental group. For control group, the mean score of writing in the pre-test was 17.01 while in the post-test was 17.69. To find out the significance of the increase between pre-test and post-test, t-test was applied. The result showed that the t-value (2.02) was higher than ttable (1.99) for reading while for writing, t-value (3.66) was also higher than ttable (1.99). Therefore, it could be concluded that there was significant difference of student’s reading comprehension and writing between students who were taught by using CIRC and those who were taught by using conventional method.

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