Al-Lisan
Vol 1, No 1 (2015): Al-Lisan

Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Cloze Test Method

Saleh, Yuwin R. Saleh R. ( IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2015

Abstract

This research was a classroom action research conducted at the second semester students of English Study Program IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo, academic year 2012/2013. This research was done into 2 cycles. The chief aim of this research was to investigate whether cloze test method can improve the students’ reading comprehension. The data of this research gained from observation sheet of lecturer’s activities, observation sheet of students’ learning activities, observation sheet of retelling, and test to know students’ reading comprehension in answering questions and retelling the reading texts. From analysis data of cycle 1 to cycle 2 it shown that the students’ reading comprehension in answering questions achieved 77.78% while students’ reading comprehension in retelling achieved 83,33%. It means that the action hypothesis the cloze test method can improve the students’ reading comprehension at the second semester of English Study Program of IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo of academic year 2013/2014 has proved and can be accepted.

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