Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text through Reciprocal Teaching Technique

Abstract

Penelitian ini  bertujuan untuk mengkaji i) apakah ada peningkatan pemahaman membaca siswa yang signifikan dalam teks naratif setelah penerapan teknik mengajar reciprocal, dan ii) bagaimana respon siswa terhadap penggunaan teknik reciprocal. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 30 siswa tingkat pertama SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan. One group pretest and posttest design adalah desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Tes kemampuan membaca dan kuesioner adalah instrumen untuk pengambilan data. Data dianalisis menggunakan Paired Sample t-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan pencapaian kemampuan membaca siswa yang secara statistik signifikan dengan tingkat signifikan (0.00<0.05). Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunakan teknik mengajar reciprocal mempermudah siswa meningkatkan kemampuan membaca mereka.

The objectives of the research were to find out i) whether there was a statistically significant improvement of the students’ reading comprehension of narrative texts after the students were taught through reciprocal teaching technique, and ii) how the students’ responses of the reciprocal teaching technique. The subjects of this research were 30 students of the first grade students of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan. One group pretest and posttest design was used in this research. The reading comprehension test and questionnaires were used to elicit the data. The data were analyzed by using Paired Sample t-test. The result of research showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension achievement with the significant level (0.00<0.05). This suggests that teaching reading using the reciprocal teaching technique facilitates the students to improve their reading comprehension.

Keywords: narrative text, reading comprehension, reciprocal teaching technique.