PENERAPAN METODE INTENSIVE READING DAN EXTENSIVE READING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA TEKS BAHASA INGGRIS MAHASISWA

Abstrak

This research applied Intensive Reading and Extensive Reading method that is appropriate to be implemented in Englishsubject at Polytechnic. The research aimed to determine the improvement of students' English reading skills throughimplementation of IR and ER for Computer and Networking Engineering study program of Politeknik Negeri UjungPandang academic year 2016/2017. The advantages of this research are to increase English skill and to broaden insightin the field of teaching. Classroom Action Research is the model conducted in this research which consists of threestages namely pretest, treatment, and posttest. Based on the pretest result, it can be concluded that the skill of readingEnglish text resulted in very poor classification for 8 students. Based on final result of research, the posttest of students'reading skill developed as the result of treatment for 5 students in very good classification.