Improving Students Ability in Reading Comprehension Hortatory Exposition Text Through Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition

摘要

This study was a classroom action research (CAR) at eleventh grade students of MA Negeri 02 Pontianak in academic year 2011/2012. The aim of this research is to know how well cooperative integrated reading and composition (CIRC) help the students in reading comprehension. The tools of data collecting in this research were observation checklist, field note and writing test. Data was analyzed by using scoring profile. The analysis of students test result covered students ability in finding out the main idea, details, reference, understanding the inference and vocabulary and making the summary of text. The students ability in reading comprehension hortatory exposition text improved in three cycles, from 4.87 (multiple choice) and 6.54 (essay) in cycle 1, then improved in cycle 2, 7.72(multiple choice) and 4.55 (essay), up to 8.6 (multiple choice) and 8.7 (essay) in cycle 3.