The Implementation of Jamboard in the Teaching Reading Comprehension of Learning Descriptive Text for Seventh Grade

Abstract

Reading comprehension will be more effective when readers know what meaning they have understood about the text's theme. The problem in teaching and learning to read is that the teacher still does not improve students' reading comprehension skills and allows students to only read the text without understanding the meaning in the reading text. This causes students to be complex and confused by interpreting the reading text. Another problem is that students need instructional media to keep them from getting bored in reading classes during a pandemic. One interesting instructional media is implementing the Jamboard Platform in learning reading comprehension in descriptive text. Some of the objectives of this research are to find out how to implement and students' perceptions of the implementation of the Jamboard platform are in learning reading comprehension in descriptive texts studied by students at the junior high school level. This study used a qualitative method with 30 participants in class VII at one of the junior high schools in Sidoarjo obtained from field notes, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews. This study is successful in helping students improve their reading comprehension skills. Furthermore, students also show positive perceptions in motivation, increasing critical thinking and keeping them from getting bored during online reading. The students support the implementation of Jamboard in learning to read because they are interested in new things and have fun during the lesson. The researcher suggests to teachers and future researchers to apply Jamboard to other English skills or other types of texts.