The Effect of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Technique on the Students' Reading Skill at UTM Mataram

The study aimed to determine the effect of using the Cooperative
Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method on the reading
skills of students at UTM Mataram. The method used in this study
was qoasi-experimental research design in which the researcher
placed two different groups and gave them different treatments. The
sampling technique used random sampling with a total of 20
students. The research instrument used the pre test and post test. The
data analysis technique used the t-test. And the research result is that
there is a positive and significant effect. The experimental group of
this study was taught using the Cooperative Integrated Reading and
Composition (CIRC) Method, while the control group of the study
was taught using the conventional reading method. The results of the
pretest and posttest were found to be satisfactory with the level of
achievement of the median homogeneity of 0.449> 0.05, the
normality test of 0.715 greater than 0.05, and the results of the t-calculation to determine the effectiveness of the CIRC Method of
0.449> 0.05, which shows that this method was able to boost the
effectiveness of student learning. At the end of this study, hopefully
the results of this study can benefit all education stakeholders such as
teachers, students, scholars, and even other researchers to support
them in creating and analyzing creative and innovative language
teaching methods. The researcher expects that the findings of this
research can provide some evidence about cooperative language
teaching, in this case, the CIRC Method to support the improvement
of the teaching and language learning process at UTM Mataram in
particular.