THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) LEARNING METHOD AND WORD MAPPING IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

This research was conducted to know how the impact of CIRC Method and Word Mapping on students reading comprehension at the tenth accounting class of SMK Modellink Sorong. In conducting this research, the researcher used pre-experimental design. The researcher used one class as the sample. The sample is the students at the tenth of accounting class which is consist of 12 students. The instrument used by in this research was 20 multiple choice test. For the technique collecting data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. In analyze the data, the researcher used paired sample T-test in SPSS version 26. The result show, the significant score is 0.781, and in the post-test, the significant score is 0.708. So, in both the pre-test and post-test, the data is distributed normally because the significant score is higher than 0.05, because Ho is accepted if Sig. P(value) > alpha = 0.05 while Ha is accepted if Sig. P(value) < alpha = 0.05. while the result of paired sample T�test, according to hypothesis testing criteria that t-value (-16.912) < t-table (1.796) and P-value (0.000) < alpha = 0.05. It can be concluded that CIRC and Word Mapping impact the students reading comprehension. The impact that occured after used the CIRC method and word mapping in reading comprehension are that students can improve their reading comprehension skills, students become more active in class, the classroom atmosphere becomes more enjoyable, students get lots of new vocabulary and their meanings, and students also can improve their comprehension in descriptive text.