Bloom's Taxonomy Strategy For Students' Ability On Reading Discussion Text

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY STRATEGY FOR STUDENTS' ABILITY ON READING DISCUSSION TEXT ROMI SUHENDRO1 1 English Education Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara ABSTRACT The objective of the research was to find out the effect of using Bloom’s Taxonomy strategy on Students’ Ability to Reading Discussion Text. This research was conducted at SMA SWASTA ISLAM AZIZI MEDAN, on Jalan Kesatria, No.70, Kec. Medan Perjuangan, Kota Medan. The research conducted during the academic year 2019/2020. The population of this research took from the twelve grade students’, which the total was 40 students. The sample was 40 student. This research, an experimental design would divided into two groups, the experimental and control group. The experimental group use Bloom’s taxonomy strategy, while The control group without use strategy. Control group over see, do not get better class control of the class experimental in give treatment. The Instrument of the research is written test. The result of this research showed that tobservedvalue was higher than ttable in which t-test>t-table (9,55>2,021). The hypothesis was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of using Bloom’s taxonomy strategy on Students’ Ability to Reading Discussion Text. Keywords: Bloom’s Taxonomy Strategy, Reading, Discussion Text 2 INTRODUCTION The progress of a nation is determined by how the development of education for the nation's children, progress in long-term units will be able to predict the quality of the nation in the next decades. The end of the planned education results in fruit where the average community is highly educated. The society of a developed country will bring progress in various fields such as development, science, technology, economics, social, politics and civilization. This shows the existence of education is so important. To obtain advanced, high education and develop the need for a plan that relates to the national goals of education for the nation. Indonesia in the national education system No 20 of 2003 states that the aim of national education is to create a generation of people who believe and fear the Almighty God and have noble character, knowledge, skills, smart and creative. Based on the researcher observation, researcher found some problems with students when learning english, especially in reading discussion text skills. Students have difficulty reading based on the general structure and language features of reading, students cannot arrange words they can not afford because the lack vocabulary, the do not undestand grammar, students are also bored with teaching strategies by the teacher, and they are not interested in learning especially in reading.One of the alternative strategies that can increase the problem of students' abilities in reading is to use Bloom's taxonomy because Bloom's taxonomy has a goal of skill level thinking, namely remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and create. In reading, students learn important concepts about how print works, feel learning and begin to think of themselves as readers. By using Bloom's taxonomy students are more understanding in reading discussion texts. In this case, the purpose of education isdivided into three domains, namely the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains, so reading a discussion text will make students more creative with the Bloom’s taxonomy used. Based on the theory of the above problems, the researcher was interested inconducting a study entitled "The Effect of Using Bloom’s Taxonomy Strategy on Students’ Ability to Reading Discussion Text."Based on the background of study, the problems are identified as follows: 1) The students have low ability in finding the meaning words. 2) The students have difficulty finding the main idea of the text. 3) The students lack the vocabulary, structure and grammar.The problems of the study are formulated as follows: “Is there any significant effect of applying Bloom's taxonomy strategy on students’ ability to reading discussion text ?”. The research from this research was expected to provide a lot of information and distribution in the teaching and learning process, improving the quality of education so that it gives good results based on the use of Bloom’s taxonomy strategies for abilities students in reading discussion texts. the growth that can be shared by many people in the field of education, especially in using Bloom's taxonomy of reading strategies. METHOD OF RESEARCH This research was conducted at the SMA Swasta Islam Azizi Medan at Jalan Kesatria No. 70, 3 Pahlawan, Kecamatan Medan Perjuangan, Kota Medan, Sumatra Utara. This research was conducted during the academic year 2019/2020, The reason of chosen this school because based on the researcher observation had found the problem that the students’ ability to reading was low and bad.The research design was used experimental quantitative design. Namely the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group was taught used the Bloom’s Taxonomy strategy, the control group was teach by used Direct Method.The design of this research was illustrated as follow: a) PreTest, the test which was given before treatment process began. The test is aim to found out the students ‟reading ability of both groups and know the mean scores of experimental and control group. b) Treatment, a treatment was given to the students. The experimental group was taught with Bloom’s Taxonomy strategy on students’ ability to reading discussion text, while the control group was taught by using Traditional strategy. c) Post-Test, the post-test is given after the treatment. The post-test was conducted to measure the competence of the students. Then find out the difference in mean score of both experimental group and control group. It also used to found out the students’ ability in reading after the treatment. In collecting data, an instrument was used multiple choices test. The test consisted of 10 items. In scoring the students’ answer, correct answer got 1 and the wrong answer got 0. The range of score from 0-100.In collecting the data, some steps will be applied as follows: a) Giving pre-test to both of the groups. b) Submit pre-test to both of groups. c) Giving treatment to experimental group by using Bloom’s Taxonomy strategy. d) Giving post-test to both of the groups. e) Submit pre-test to both of groups. f) Listing the score of Pretest and Post-test in table to both of groups.After collecting the data from the test, the data analyzed by measuring the different scores between Pre-test and Post-test from the experimental group and control group.Listing the scores into two tables, first for the experimental group scores and second for the control group scores.Calculating the total score Pre-test and Post-test in experimental group and control group.Calculating was conducted by using t-testaccording to (Sugiyono, 2017). 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