THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POWER OF TWO STRATEGY TO SOLVE THE STUDENTS’ PROBLEM IN READING COMPREHENSION AT FIRST GRADE OF SMK PGRI 1 TULUNGAGUNG ACADEMIC YEARS 2015/2016

TUTUT TRIWAHYUNI, 2813123154 (2017) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POWER OF TWO STRATEGY TO SOLVE THE STUDENTS’ PROBLEM IN READING COMPREHENSION AT FIRST GRADE OF SMK PGRI 1 TULUNGAGUNG ACADEMIC YEARS 2015/2016. [ Skripsi ]

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ABSTRACT Triwahyuni, Tutut. Student Registered Number. 2813123154. 2016.The Implementation of “The Power of Two” Strategy To Solve The Students’ Problem in Reading Comprehension At First Grade of SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung Academic Years 2015/2016.Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Erna Iftanti, M.Pd. Keywords: implementation, the power of twostrategy, reading comprehension. English Language in education is one of lessons that should be learned well. In Indonesia, English Language as foreign language is surely difficult to be learnt, especially in reading, as in X PMS-1 Class of SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung. In this class the students experience difficulty in comprehending the content of text. Therefore, to solve the above mentioned problem is by using The Power of Two strategy in reading comprehension. The research problem in this study is: How can The Power of Two Strategy beimplemented to solve students’ problem in reading comprehension at First Grade in SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung? So, the purpose of this study is to explain the implementation of The Power of Two Strategy to solve students’ problem in readingcomprehension at First Grade of SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung in Academic Year of 2015/2016. This study used Classroom Action Research (CAR) with two cycles where each cycle has three meetings. Every cycle was conducted in four stages; they were planning, acting, observing and reflecting that adapt Kemmis and Taggart’s CAR model (1988). In doing this Classroom Action Research, the researcher was helped by collaborator teacher as observer in teaching learning process in the classroom. The subject of this study is the first grade students majoring in marketing at SMK PGRI 1 of Tulungagung that consist of 40 students: they are 2 males and 38 females. The finding in this study indicates that The Power of Two Strategy could solve students’ problems in reading comprehension. The matter could be seen from progression of percentage of students’ active participation and students’ score. The steps of this strategy were: (1) teacher explained The Power of Two Strategy to reading comprehension (2) teacher gives reading test individually (3) teacher ask to student to make a pair (4) the pair should discuss about their answer (5) students write the conclusion or the result of discussion (6) finally the teacher and students evaluate the students’ answer and reflect the teaching learning process by using The Power of Two Strategy to reading comprehension. This result of this study indicates that the implementation of The Power of Two Strategy can be used as alternativeteaching strategy to solve students’ problem in reading comprehension at first grade of SMK PGRI 1 Tulungagung.

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