Improving students’ reading comprehension by using Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) strategy at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan

Lbs, Siti Khodijah (2017) Improving students’ reading comprehension by using Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) strategy at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about improving students’ reading comprehension by using Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) Strategy at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan. The problem of this research were students do not understand what they have read, they can not expression purpose of the text, they are not able to identify main idea, they can not identify the vocabulary and they can not get the conclusion of the text that they have read. So, it made students difficult to get high score in reading. The purpose of this research was to examine the extend of Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) Strategy whether it improves students’ reading comprehension at grade X of SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan or not. In order to achieve the purpose of this research, the researcher conducted classroom action research, by implementing the Kemmis and Taggart design which consisted four steps; they were planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher use two cycles and each cycle consested of two meetings. In addition, the participants of this research were the class of X IPA-1 which consisted of 36 students and also there was collaboration of English Teacher. Meanwhile, the data were derived among from quantitative (mean score of students’ reading test), and qualitative (observation notes and interview). Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. The first test in the first cycle was 69.44 (33%) and second test in the second cycle was 83.47(94.4%). It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Based on observation notes stated that the students got improvement and students were more active and interested in learning reading comprehension. Related to the interview result, it could be known that students’ reading comprehension had improved. It asserted that Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat (RIDER) Strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension at grade X of SMA Negeri 1 Panyabungan.

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