Implementation of Intensive-Extensive Reading Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension

This article was based on a research of my reading class at Study Program of English Education of STAIN Palangka Raya, and it was published in JEFL (Journal on English as a Foreign Language), Vol 3, No 1, 2013. For more complete text please click here or visit my Google Scholar. 

ABSTRACT 

The study is aimed at developing the Intensive-Extensive Reading Strategy (IERS) to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The study employed Collaborative Classroom Action Research. The subjects of the study were 32 students of the second semester of English Education Study Program of STAIN Palangka Raya in the 2010/2011 academic year. The data were gained from reading comprehension test, observation, field notes and questionnaire.
The findings show that the implementation of IERS with the appropriate procedures developed can improve the students’ reading comprehension. It is indicated by the improvements of the percentage of the students achieving the score greater than or equal to C (60-69), and of the percentage of their involvement in the reading activities during the implementation of IERS in Cycles I and II. Consequently, the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension can be reached but it should follow the appropriate procedures of the implementation of IERS having been developed. 

Keywords: Intensive-Extensive Reading Strategy, Reading Comprehension, Improvement
 

APPENDIX 1

Table 1. The Results of Analysis on the Students’ Reading Comprehension

No	Students		Score Obtained from Cycle I			Score Obtained from Cycle II
1	AH		75	B	*1	80	A	*1
2	AJ		65	C	*2	70	B	*2
3	AJW		75	B	*3	70	B	*3
4	ATP		50	D		60	C	*4
5	AM		70	B	*4	85	A	*5
6	ANW		85	A	*5	85	A	*6
7	BAH		50	D		55	D
8	DP		50	D		70	B	*7
9	DI		65	C	*6	70	B	*8
10	HH		65	C	*7	70	B	*9
11	IW		55	D		55	D
12	MH		60	C	*8	60	C	*10
13	MZ		50	D		55	D
14	MAR		65	C	*9	80	A	*11
15	NH		65	C	*10	60	C	*12
16	NM		80	A	*11	85	A	*13
17	NRH		50	D		55	D
18	RS		50	D		75	B	*14
19	RIT		50	D		50	D
20	RKK		70	B	*12	70	B	*15
21	RAF		50	D		55	D
22	RDS		50	D		60	C	*16
23	SAL		50	D		75	B	*17
24	SLP		70	B	*13	80	A	*18
25	SM		65	C	*14	75	B	*19
26	SQ		50	D		60	C	*20
27	SN		60	C	*15	75	B	*21
28	SUP		50	D		55	D
29	UHY		60	C	*16	60	C	*22
30	REN		75	B	*17	80	A	*23
31	NUR		50	D		75	B	*24
32	YUN		60	C	*18	60	C	*25
Notes:
		C The first criterion was reached if ≥75% students of the class achieved the score greater than or equal to C (60-69)
		C In Cycle I, the percentage of the students achieving the score greater than or equal to C (60-69) was 56.25% (18 students) *
		C In Cycle II, the percentage of the students achieving the score greater than or equal to C (60-69) was 78.13% (25 students) *

APPENDIX 2

Table 2. The Result of Analysis on the Data Gained from Observation

Meeting	Steps/ Activities	Indicators	Progress Percentages
			Cycle I	Cycle II
1	(Pre-reading Activities)
	Motivating and Developing Background Knowledge	1.          Pay attention to the teacher's instruction	75.00%	90.63%
		2.          Respond to the teacher's instruction	71.88%	84.38%
		3.          Observe media provided by the teacher and respond to the questions	71.88%	87.50%
		4.          Understand the topic of the text to be discussed	65.63%	81.25%
		5.          Understand the story of the text	68.75%	87.50%
	Mean 1		70.63%	86.25%
	(Whilst-reading Activities)
	Leading to Directed Reading Activities	6.          Respond to the teacher giving a model of the reading text	65.63%	81.25%
		7.          Seriously participated to the teacher giving model of how to read through skimming, scanning, predicting, summarizing and previewing	62.50%	87.50%
		8.          Read the text silently	75.00%	93.75%
		9.          Underline some difficult words of the text	68.75%	81.25%
		10.      Respond to the class discussion of the words	62.50%	78.13%
		11.      Do skimming, scanning, predicting, summarizing and previewing systematically	59.38%	81.25%
Mean 2			65.63%	83.85%
2	Guiding to Skill-building Activities	12.      Get involved in group activities and follow the rules	71.88%	90.63%
		13.      Seriously respond to the teacher clarifying some question words and giving the examples how to answer the questions	68.75%	81.25%
		14.      Answer the questions considering some aspects of literal reading comprehension	71.88%	90.63%
		15.      Answer the questions considering some aspects of interpretive reading comprehension	65.63%	84.38%
		16.      Seriously respond to the class discussion	56.25%	84.38%
		17.      Respond to the teacher asking them to search any types of reading text from the newspaper, magazine, book or internet as their home assignment	75.00%	93.75%
Mean 3			68.23%	87.50%
3	(Post-reading Activities)
	Providing Follow-up Activities	18.      Respond to the teacher giving a model of how to recognize word in the text, the text is provided by the teacher	56.25%	87.50%
		19.      Respond to the teacher giving a model of how to recognize main ideas of the text	59.38%	81.25%
		20.      Respond to the teacher giving a model of how to make some comprehension questions and answer them	62.50%	90.63%
		21.      Read another text which has the different topic from the previous one intensively. The text is taken from the students’ interest gotten from home assignment	56.25%	93.75%
		22.      Make some reading comprehension questions considering some aspects of literal and interpretive reading comprehensions	75.00%	90.63%
		23.      Respond to the class discussion	56.25%	81.25%
		24.      Read the text intensively	59.38%	93.75%
		25.      Identify the stated information in the text	65.63%	90.63%
		26.      Understand the implied information in the text	62.50%	84.38%
		27.      Respond to the teacher giving a model of how to do the text report individually and in group	75.00%	90.63%
		28.      Explore the text for a topic of their interest in book, newspaper, magazine, or through internet	75.00%	96.88%
		29.      Read the text at home as many times as possible extensively	75.00%	96.88%
		30.      Do the text report at home individually and in group	81.25%	96.88%
	Mean 4		66.11%	90.38%
4	Activating Enrichment Activities	31.      Individually read their selected text for some minutes before the class	84.38%	96.88%
		32.      Submit their text reports individually	93.75%	96.88%
		33.      Interview other groups and write down the result on the group interview report form	84.38%	96.88%
		34.      Hold a discussion in group to decide one of the texts to be reported orally before the class	78.13%	93.75%
		35.      Report their text report orally before the class	84.38%	96.88%
		36.      Submit their text report in written form as written report	96.88%	100%
Mean 5			86.98%	96.88%
Mean (1+2+3+4+5)			70.49%	89.32%

                                                 

Note:                                                                     

Number of students: 32

Scale:    1 (poor)              : 0%-25% students do the activities         (0-8 students)          C fail

               2 (fair)                 : 26%-50% students do the activities       (9-16 students)        C fail

               3 (good)              : 51%-75% students do the activities       (17-24 students)      C fail

               4 (very good)   : 76%-100% students do the activities     (25-32 students)      C succeed

C  The second criterion of success was met if at least 76%-100% students did the activities or categorized as vey good (25-32 students).

C  In Cycle I, the average percentage of the students doing the activities was 70.49% (23 students) categorized as good (fail).

C  In Cycle II, the average percentage of the students doing the activities was 89.32% (29 students) categorized as very good (succeed).