The Use of Tri Focus Steve Snyder to Improve the Students on Reading Speed Skills for the Second Grade Students of MTs Negeri Cepogo Boyolali in the Academic Year of 2015/2016"
ABSTRACT Waryani, Dewi Nur. 2016. "The Use of Tri Focus Steve Snyder to Improve the Students on Reading Speed Skills for the Second Grade Students of MTs Negeri Cepogo Boyolali in the Academic Year of 2015/2016" A Graduating Paper. English Department of Education Faculty State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Salatiga. Consultant: Sari Famularsih, S.PdI.M.A Keywords: Tri Focus Steve Snyder Technique, Reading Speed Skills. In this modern era, language is the most important in communication especially English Language. Reading is one of skills that have educationally the most important thing to be mastered. The purpose of reading is to get and search information, understand the meaning of read. From the state above, through reading people are able to determine the reading speed. The relation between reading speed and the purpose of desired from reading activity can make reading speed flexibility. The effectiveness on reading speed can be seen from the readers' interest and reading ability. In fact, most of the students have a low interest on reading. But actually, people know that low interest on reading ability will affect to the other languages ability, such as listening, speaking, and writing skills. This technique can grow motivation and spirit the students. This research will answer these main questions (1) How far the Tri Focus Steve Snyder technique to improve the students on reading speed skills for the second grade of MTS N Cepogo Boyolali in the academic year of 2015/2016? (2) How is the implementation of using Tri Focus Steve Snyder as a technique to improve the learning achievement of students on reading speed skills for the second grade of MTS N Cepogo Boyolali in the academic year of 2015/2016? (3) How the result of using Tri Focus Steve Snyder technique for the second grade students of MTS N Cepogo Boyolali in the academic year of 2015/2016? The object of the research is 26 students of the second grade students of MTs Negeri Cepogo Boyolali were instructed through Tri Focus Steve Snyder to Imporove Reading Speed Skills. The methodology of this research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) It is conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. From the result, the researcher found several findings on it. The results shows that the mean score of post test in cycle I is 156. 26 the mean score of post test in cycle II is 236. 73. The findings show that the improvement of the students' reading speed skills is significant after applying Tri Focus Steve Snyder technique.