Improving the Tenth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement of Narrative Text and Reading Interest by Using Guided Reading Strategy (original) (raw)

2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Universitas PGRI Palembang (INCoEPP 2021)

This research aimed at improving the tenth-grade students' reading comprehension achievement of Narrative Text and reading interest by using Guided Reading Strategy at SMK Sentosa Bhakti in the academic year of 2020/2021. The method used in this research is classroom action research which consists of four steps, namely planning, implementation or action, observation, and reflection. The subject of this research is X TKJ 1 of SMK Sentosa Bhakti Baturaja consist of 28 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used a test to measure students' reading comprehension achievement, questionnaires to measure students' reading interest, and an observation sheet to know the teacher and students' participants. The result of this research showed that the tenth-grade students made improvements in reading comprehension achievement. It could be seen from the mean score on preliminary research (17,86 %), cycle I (60,71 %) and cycle 2 (85,71%)and for their interest in cycle I (60,71 %) and cycle 2 (85,71%). This paper contibutes for teacher to improve their student's reading comprehension and reading interest by using guided reading strategy.