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SKRIPSI THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INDEX CARD MATCH STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE EIGHTH GRADERS’ NARRATIVE TEXT READING COMPREHENSION IN SMP N 2 SECANG
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Fauzi, Muhammad Rifqi, 2024. “The Effectiveness of Index Card Match Strategy to Improve the Eighth Graders' Narrative Text Reading Comprehension in SMP N 2 Secang”. An Undergraduate Thesis. English Education Department, the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Tidar. Advisor I, Susanti Malasari, S.Pd., M.Hum., Advisor II, Winda Candra Hantari, S.S., M.A.
Keywords: Index Card Match Strategy, Narrative Text, Reading Comprehension.
In English learning, reading is essential for students to grasp English material. Reading comprehension is one of the components of reading activity, which is the essence of reading since it aims to earn the meaning of the texts. Mastering reading comprehension is crucial for junior high school students as it aims to help them recognize topics, primary ideas, details, vocabulary, and inferences. However, during the writer's observation, there are several problems confronted by the eighth-grade students of SMPN 2 Secang regarding reading comprehension. This highlights the demand to implement suitable learning strategies to facilitate students’ comprehension of the materials.
The objective of this study is to find out how effective is the use of Index Card Match strategy for students' reading comprehension improvement of narrative text and to find out the difference in reading comprehension of narrative text between the students who are taught by using Index Card Match strategy and the students who are taught by using STAD (Students Team Achievement Division) strategy.
This study carried out quantitative research in Quasi-Experimental Design. Two classes were involved in this study, class VIII-F (experiment class) and class VIII-G (control class), with 65 students at SMP N 2 Secang. Reading comprehension tests were administered for both classes as the instrument for collecting data.
The result of this study reveals that the experiment class showed an improvement in their posttest scores compared to the pretest. Moreover, the N-gain score results in 48.6013, meaning that the Index Card Match strategy falls into the less effective category. The independent sample t-test reveals a significant value of 0.071, which exceeds 0.05, indicating that the scores of the two groups are pretty similar, as well as the acceptance of H0 (null hypothesis).
Pertaining to the findings, the writer concludes that the utilization of the Index Card Match strategy was successfully carried out to enhance reading comprehension of narrative texts among the students, encouraging active involvement, and sharing of ideas. Future researchers are expected to delve deeper upon this study by examining a wider range of learning materials and a more comprehensive range of contexts.
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