IMPROVING THE ELEVENTH GRADE IPA 3 CLASS STUDENTS’ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT ON NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING SQ3R STRATEGY AT MAN 2 JEMBER

Abstract

This research was intended to improve the eleventh IPA 3 class students’ reading comprehension achievement by using SQ3R(Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) strategy on narrative text at MAN 2 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. Based on the preliminary study which was conducted by interviewing the English teacher of MAN 2 Jember, it was revealed that the eleventh grade IPA 3 class of MAN 2 Jember, still faced some problems in reading comprehension, the students also have difficulties to catch the point of the text. Besides, most of the students didn’t actively participate during teaching learning process of reading. It was known that XI IPA 3 class has the lowest reading comprehension achievement among the other three classes which is taught by the English teacher. Therefore, in order to solve the problems this research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as a research design which consisted of planning the action, implementation the action, observation and evaluation, and reflection. The research participants of this research were 27 students of the eleventh grade IPA class at MAN 2 Jember. The data collection methods required in this research were reading test and observation to obtain primary data. Meanwhile, interview and documentation were used to get supporting data. The collected data were analyzed by using simple statistic with percentage formula. The data analysis of this research, revealed that the percentage of the students’ active participation increased from 74% in Cycle 1 to 89% in Cycle 2. Moreover, the results of the percentage of students who got at least 75 in reading comprehension test increased from 66.6% in Cycle 1 to 81.4% in Cycle 2. Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that the use of SQ3R strategy can improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement on narrative text.