PROMOTING VSS (Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy) TO IMPROVE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT SMP ARGOPURO 2 SUCI JEMBER

RISKA KHOIRUN, NISA (2023) PROMOTING VSS (Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy) TO IMPROVE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT SMP ARGOPURO 2 SUCI JEMBER. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KHAS Jember.

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Riska Khoirun Nisa, 2023: Promoting VSS(Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy) to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMP Argopuro 2 Suci Jember. Key Words: Reading Comprehension, vocabulary self-collection strategy, strategy
In learning English, improving reading comprehension is the most important thing to do. Reading comprehension is the ability to understand the meaning, and integrate what the reader already to knows. The preliminary study of this research shows the students have problems with their understand in reading, especially similarity of the word of the text. The students’ get bored with learning method who only relies on the material were contained from book. Therefore, the students’ need learning activities that make the students’ were interested in learning English.
The formulation of the research question was “how the implementation of promoting VSS (vocabulary self-collection strategy) can improve students’ reading comprehension at SMP Argopuro 2 suci?” The research objective of this research is to improve the students' reading comprehension by implementation the VSS at eight grade students’ of SMP Argopuro 2 Suci.
The design of this research is classroom action research. This action research is aims to describe the learning process in improving students’ reading comprehension. There are several steps in classroom action research include as planning, action, observation, and reflection. This research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of two meetings. Data were collected using two methods at once, such as qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data is collected based on the teaching situation and learning process. While data quantitative were collected based on student scores after giving the pre-test and post-test. Technique of analysis data is the researcher will write some analysis data obtained from the class and will analysis to answer research questions. This research uses qualitative description to describe the data collected from understanding and meaning, not through values. Description based on a reading test (pre-test and post-test), Observation, Interview, and Documentation. Criteria of success in this research were successed when 80% the students reach Completeness Level Criteria (KKM) which 76.
Based on the students’ mean score, it can be seen the first cycle was not reaching from the criteria of success. The percentage of students who achieve the minimum score is 60%. Students’ mean score increased in cycle 2 after the researcher may some adjustment based on the reflecting on cycle 1 by applying different types of questions in each cycle. Therefore, the researcher conducted a second cycle to increase the percentage of students who achieved the minimum score. The results of the reading comprehension test in the cycle 2 were showed that the implementation of VSS by multiple choice questions and the media that was changed from video to song lyrics was successful and the percentage of students who received a minimum score improved 80%. Based on data analysis, the researcher concluded that applying VSS is one of factor to improve students' reading comprehension.

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