PENGARUH MODEL COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) TERHADAP LITERASI SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe comprehensively the effect of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) model on the literacy abilities of elementary school students. The results of this study were expected to provide information about innovative models to be implemented in order to improve the literacy skills of elementary school students. This study utilized pre-experimental research method referring to research conducted on one experimental group whose sample was not randomly selected and there was no control group. This method was used to determine the effect of CIRC model on students' literacy skills after being given a treatment. The design in this study was one group pretest-posttest design. There was a significant effect of using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) model on the literacy abilities of fourth grade elementary school students. The average of overall pretest scores was 65.3. Then, it was obtained that the average posttest scores after the treatment was 86.1. Thus, there was a significant effect of CIRC model on the literacy abilities of elementary school students. as a result, the CIRC learning model could be implemented as an alternatives to increase the literacy skills in elementary school students.

Keywords

• learning model, circ, literacy