The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Ability (A Classroom Action Research of the Eight Years of SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the Academic Year of 2016/2017)

Prianggoro, Aditya Wahyu (2016) The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Ability (A Classroom Action Research of the Eight Years of SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the Academic Year of 2016/2017). Other thesis, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan.

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Abstract

This research is mainly aimed to improve the students’ reading ability through Reciprocal Teaching Strategy. Main questions will be answered in this research are(1)How is the implementation of Reciprocal Teaching (RT) strategy in improving students’ reading ability to the eight grade students of SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the academic year of 2016/2017? (2) Is Reciprocal Teaching (RT) strategies able to improve the students’ reading ability of the eight grade students of SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the academic year of 2016/2017? (3) How far is the improvement Reciprocal Teaching in improving students’ reading ability of the eight grade students of SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the academic year of 2016/2017? This research was conducted at SMP Islam Sudirman Ampel in the academic year of 2016/2017 especially in VIII AClass. The method of this research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). There were two cycles; each cycles comprised planning, implementing of the action, observing and reflecting.The techniques of collecting the data are observation, test and documentation. The results show that the students’ reading ability improves significantly.The using Reciprocal Teaching Strategy can motivate the students to involve actively in learning reading ability in class. It can be seen. In addition the mean improves in every cycle. The mean of post-test of cycle I is 68.8 that is different from the mean of pre-test of cycle I is 59.1 . The mean of pre-test of cycle II is 66.45 which improves in the post-test becomes 79.1. The findings also show that the improvement of the students’ reading ability is significant after the students got Reciprocal Teaching Startegy. The increasing precentages students who pass test from cycle I to Cycle II are: pre test in cycle I 70%;and the percentage of the students who passed standard minimum score in cycle II is 90%. At the first cycle the mean post test (68.8) is higher than pre test (59.1). The t calculation shows that the t-table is 2.1 while the t-calculation is 3.12 . In the second cycle, the mean of post test (79.1) also higher than pre test (66,45). The result of t-calculation is bigger than t-table that is 7.21 from t-table 2.1. It means that there big significant different between pre test and post test.

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