Summary 14: Improving Reading Comprehension Through Extensive Reading (A Classroom Action Research for the Second Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Mlati, Academic Years 2013-2014)

Citation

Prasetyono, Budi. (2014). Improving Reading Comprehension Through Extensive Reading (A Classroom Action Research for the Second Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Mlati, Academic Years 2013-2014). (Unpublished bachelor thesis), Ahmad Dahlan University, Indonesia. 

Summary

In this paper, Prasetyono research’s aims are to improve the quality of teaching and learning process, to describe the students’ response, and to improve the students’ reading comprehension through extensive reading activity. In the observation step, the researcher found that the class reading atmosphere was not so good, the students were not interested in the class reading activity, and their mean score was under the ideal mean score. During the research, the students started to catch the benefits of the extensive reading activity, to use the useful strategies to help them comprehend better, and also to perform better response. The results of this research are that the quality of the teaching and learning process was improving, the students’ response were also better than before the research, and the students’ reading comprehension were also improving.

Application

The classroom atmosphere and the students motivation are important. These aspects depend on the teachers’ performances. We should make a happy classroom atmosphere and make the students interested to us.