IMPLEMENTING COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

The problems in teaching learning process at SMP is the students' reading comprehension is not comprehensible. Many students were uninterested with teaching English strategies reading comprehension. The teacher does not use kinds of strategy in teaching and learning process so that the learners can't reach the goal of the lesson overall. Based on the problem, the article to know Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition improve students' reading comprehension of descriptive text. The design of the article was CAR. The application used questionnaire and implementing Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition Strategy to teach Descriptive text. The result is more than 87% gave good response in the class. They had motivation and attention in following the lesson. In the test at first cycle, 34% of the students had the score above KKM and the second cycle, 87% of the students had the score above KKM. The reflection was succeed, the result of cycle 2 showed the increasing from cycle 1. The conclusion was the use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition strategy could apply successfully and made the class situation more active