DEVELOPING READING SKILL BY APPLYING POWER THINKING

Abstract

Abstract: The research is aimed to improve the reading skill by applying Power Thinking. Power Thinking is an alternative system for outlining information by grouping main ideas, subtopics, and details. The subjects of the research are the first semester students of English Language Education Department of STKIP PGRI Trenggalek in Academic Year 2015/2016. The research was conducted in two cycles with several changes of activities from cycle 1 to cycle 2. The result shows that the mean score of the studentsâ?? work in cycle 1 was 64.08 and cycle 2 was 71.84. Power Thinking can improve the studentsâ?? reading skill by: (1) helping the students find the important information from a text from grouping of main idea, subtopics and details; (2) helping the students make a summary of the text as one way to evaluate reading activity. It indicates that Power Thinking can be implemented to improve reading skill.

Keywords: Developing, Reading Skill, Power Thinking