Improving Students' Comprehension of Short Story by Using Video at Semester VI of the English Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh

Ningsih, Darda Sutfi (2021) Improving Students' Comprehension of Short Story by Using Video at Semester VI of the English Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Comprehension is a process of constructing meaning from the text. In STKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh was found that the semester VI students had a problem in comprehension of short story. They had lack understanding to comprehend the short story, low motivation, and they had lack of books to read available in library. The purpose of this research was to test how far video better improve students' comprehension of short story and what factors improved of students' comprehension of short story at semester VI of STKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh. The research was a classroom action research. The participants of this research were the semester VI of the English Department of S TKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh students. The instruments used to collect the data were comprehension of short story test, observation sheet, field notes and interview which were used to see the improvement of comprehension of short story. The research was conducted for eight meetings. Consisted of two cycles, each cycle consisted of 4 meetings involving, planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In cycle I, students' comprehension result was still low. In cycle 2, this problem was solved by paying more attention to the media, technique, and guides the students to improve their comprehension of short story. Thus, it could be concluded that video could improve students' comprehension of short story. The improvement was influenced by several factors, such as the material, media, classroom activity, classroom management, and teacher approach. Therefore, it was concluded that using video can better improve the students' comprehension of short story at the semester VI of the English Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Sungai Penuh.

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