This research was aimed at finding out how the implementation of point
system can improve the students’ participation at Grade VIII E Students of SMP
Negeri 1 Cilongok in Academic Year 2011/2012. The main problem faced by the
students in the class was the lack of students’ participation in following reading
teaching learning process. The Classroom Action Research was done at SMP
Negeri 1 Cilongok with 32 students; 13 male and 19 female students of grade VIII
E as the subject of research. The research had been done for 3 months (November
2011 – January 2012).
The perform research, the writer worked in collaboration with the
English teacher. The CAR was done based on Kemmis and Mc Taggart’s CAR
design. The writer implemented the research in two cycles; each cycle consisted
of two actions. The procedures of research were; making plan, acting, observing,
evaluating and reflecting. The data were collected through observations,
questionnaires, filed notes, interviews and documents. There were two kinds of
data, qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data was gained by
analyzing the use of the implementation of point system that improved the
students’ participation in reading teaching and learning process, whereas the
quantitative data was obtained by accounting the percentage of indicators of
students’ participation to measure whether there was improvement in the CAR or
not.
The result of this research showed that the students’ participation in each
cycle improved significantly. Cycle 1 showed the improvement of 21.26% and
cycle 2 86.56%. The average of students’ participation in both contributive and
initiative participation from cycle 1 to cycle 2 in reading class was 65.30%. It
meant that the result of this research had reached the success indicator (65%).
Thus, the quality of students’ participation was good. Meanwhile, the result of
interviews showed that the students and the collaborative teacher gave positive
responses toward the implementation of point system and the questionnaire’s
percentage of students who chose “Ya” was more than 65%. Based on the result
above, the implementation of point system can improve students’ participation in
reading teaching and learning process.