Enhancing Students' Reading Comprehension Through Literature Circles 2.0 Implementation in the 10th Grade of Senior High School

Triayuni, Feby (2025) Enhancing Students' Reading Comprehension Through Literature Circles 2.0 Implementation in the 10th Grade of Senior High School. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Feby Triayuni, 2025; Enhancing Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Literature Circles 2.0 Implementation in the 10th Grade of Senior High School.
Keyword: Literature Circle 2.0, Reading Comprehension, Narrative Text
Reading comprehension remains a significant challenge for students at a senior high school, particularly in understanding narrative texts. Based on preliminary observation and an interview with the English teacher, students struggled with identifying main ideas, comprehending text meaning, and recognizing supporting details. The pre-test result showed only 16% of 36 students achieved the minimum mastery criteria (KKM) of 75, with an average score of 60. The predominant use of traditional translation methods in the classroom limited students’ engagement and failed to develop their reading comprehension skills effectively. Therefore, an innovative teaching strategy was needed to address these specific classroom challenges and improve students’ reading comprehension performance.
The research question of this research is to explore “How does the implementation of the literature circle in the tenth grade of the senior high school?”. This research aims to explore the implementation of literature circle to enhance students' reading comprehension.
This study employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) using the Kemmist and McTaggart model, conducted over two cycles with 36 tenth-grade students at a senior high school in Jember as the participants. The success criterion was set at 75% of students achieving the minimum mastery criteria of 75. Data were collected through reading comprehension test, classroom observations, and interviews. Each cycle consisted of four stages: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
The result demonstrated that the implementation of literature circles successfully enhanced students’ reading comprehension. After two cycles of implementation, the average score reached 86.3 with 80.5% of students achieving the minimum mastery criteria (KKM) of 75. This exceed the predetermined success criterion of 75% of students reaching the minimum score, indicating that the literature circles strategy was effective in improving students’ reading comprehension of narrative texts. The findings confirm that literature circles implementation can significantly enhance students’ ability to identify main ideas, understand text meaning, recognize supporting details, and comprehend vocabulary in narrative text.

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