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SKRIPSI IMPLEMENTING TALKING STICK STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL ON NARRATIVE TEXT IN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
Fitria, Dhesi. (2023). Implementing Talking Stick Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Skill on Narrative Text in High School Education. An Undergraduate Thesis. English Education Department, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Tidar. Advisor I Moch Malik Al Firdaus, M.Pd., Advisor II Agnira Rekha, M.Pd.
Keywords: Talking Stick Strategy, reading skill, narrative text
One of the English skills that students have to acquire in learning English is reading. However, the students have low activeness in the teaching and learning process, which leads to low students' reading skill. Therefore, the teacher needs an innovative teaching strategy to contrive the students to be active in the classroom. One of the strategies that can be implemented is the Talking Stick Strategy. In this study, Talking Stick was implemented to increase students' reading skill on narrative text in High School Education.
This study was intended to fulfill two objectives. First, this study was carried out to know the students' activeness when Talking Strategy was implemented in reading class narrative text. The second one is to find out how well Talking Stick improved students' reading skill on narrative text in High School Education.
The writer conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR). This study was done in some stages, they are Pre-Cycle, Cycle I, and Cycle II. The subject of this study was X-3 students of SMAN 1 Candimulyo in the academic year 2022/2023. The class was chosen as the subject because it has the lowest score average among the classes. The total of students was 36 and it consists of 12 males and 24 females. The data collection techniques that were used were test and non-test. In the non-test technique, there were observations, questionnaires, and documentation. Then the data were analyzed by qualitative and quantitative techniques.
The result showed a good improvement in students' activeness in narrative text reading class after the writer implemented Talking Stick Strategy. It was proven by the result of observation, questionnaire, and documentation. The result of observation in Pre-Cycle was 50.83%, the observation in Cycle I was 62.50%, and it became 72.77% in Cycle II. The implementation of the Talking Stick Strategy also made improvements in reading skill. In the Pre-Cycle test, the average reading skill narrative text score was 64.44. After the Talking Stick Strategy was applied, the average of student's score in Cycle I test reached 72.91, and it improved to 85 on the Cycle II test. Therefore, there was 20.56% points of the total improvement from the Pre-Cycle and Cycle II tests. Based on the results above, the writer concludes that using the Talking Stick Strategy could improve the students' activeness and significantly improve their narrative text reading skill. Hence, it is recommended that English teachers apply Talking Stick Strategy as an alternative media in teaching reading narrative text.
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