THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDEX CARD MATCH STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 JETIS PONOROGO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

NADHIROTUR ROHMAH, RISDA (2014) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDEX CARD MATCH STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 JETIS PONOROGO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo.

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Abstract

Rohmah, Risda Nadhirotur. 2014. The Implementation of Index Card Match Strategy
to Improve the Students’ Reading Skill at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 1 Jetis
Ponorogo in the Academic Year of 2013/2014. Thesis. English Education
Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah
University of Ponorogo. Advisors: (1) Siti Asiyah, M.Pd (2) Diyah Atiek
Mustikawati, M.Hum.
Key Terms: Teaching, Index Card Match Strategy, Reading Skill
There are many languages in the world, one of them is English. It is an
international language that many people all over the world use. In Indonesia, English is a
foreign language and it is included as the subject in the school. There are four skills of
English those are, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.
Reading is a language skill which is used to communicate indirectly. However,
some students still get difficulties. Based on the observation in SMPN 1 Jetis Ponorogo,
the problems of teaching reading are the students bored in the method of teaching
learning process especially in reading, lack of vocabularies, and laziness in reading long
texts.
To solve these problems, English teacher should use interesting strategy to
improve the students‟ reading skill. In this case, the researcher would apply Index Card
Match Strategy. This strategy would help students to study actively in happy condition or
situation, make them enjoy their learning, practice their speed of think, try to competition
in answering reading test with their friends, and receive the material of reading easily.
Based on the fact above, the researcher formulated the statement of problem, how
can the implementation of Index Card Match Strategy improve students‟ reading skill at
the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Jetis Ponorogo at the academic year 2013/2014.
The research was done in SMPN 1 Jetis Ponorogo started on January 30th until
February 20th 2014. The subject of this research was class VIII D that consisted 25
students. In collecting data, the researcher used three research instruments, those are
observation checklist, questionnaire, and test.
Based on the result of this research, the implementation of Index Card Match
Strategy could improve students‟ reading skill, it was seen from the improvement from
cycle 1 and cycle 2. The criteria of success were 80. At the beginning of the process
(cycle 1), not all of students past the test, there were 14 students got score under 80 with
the mean score 64,9, and the final test (cycle 2) 23 students got score above 80 with the
mean score 87. Beside of that, the result of questionnaire showed improvement from
68,5% to 85% and the final result of observation checklist showed that they are more
active in teaching and learning process than before (cycle 1).
Finally, the researcher concluded that the implementation of Index Card Match
Strategy could improve the students‟ reading skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Jetis
Ponorogo. The researcher gives suggestion that English teachers can use and improve
Index Card Match Strategy as the alternative strategy in teaching reading

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Departement of Teacher Training and Education > Department of English
Depositing User:	Editor FKIP
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2014 02:49
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2014 02:49
URI:	https://eprints.umpo.ac.id/id/eprint/387

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