Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name :ullya zainura. student no :1409200080020 department/strata :english education/s2 title :improving students’ reading ability through constructivism model (a classroom action research to the second year students of mas al zahrah bireuen) keywords: reading ability, constructivism model. the objectives of this research are to know how constructivism model can be implemented in reading comprehension, to know the students’ response toward the implementation of constructivism model in teaching reading ability and to identify whether the constructivism model can improve students ‘reading ability to the second year students of mas al zahrah or not. the subject of this research was an english teacher who taught the second year students and students of xi/b in the 2016/2017 academic year. this is a kind of action research which employs qualitative method in nature. two cycles were conducted in this research. each of this cycle consisted of the activities of planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action and reflecting. the instruments used in data collection were observation, questionnaire, and test. the result showed that the implementation of constructivism model was successful in improving students’ reading ability. the result of the test in cycle 1 was 66, 85 and in cycle 2 was 84, 25. it means that the constructivism model can be used to improve students’ reading ability. in addition, the students’ gave positive response toward the implementation of this model in improving their reading comprehension. it can be concluded that the constructivism model can be used the students ‘reading ability and also give positive effect to the students in learning reading comprehension.