Improving the Eighth Grade Students’ Active Participation and Their Reading Comprehension Achievement of Narrative Text by Using Subtitled Narrative Video at SMPN 1 Rambipuji Jember

Abstract

In Indonesia, English as a foreign language is taught to students as a compulsory subject from Junior High School up to university level. This research was conducted to solve the problems related to the reading comprehension achievement and participation. The research subject was chosen by using purposive method. The research design used was Classroom Action Research. The data of this research was taken from test, observation, documentation and interview. The result showed an improvement happened after getting the actions. The improvement was related with the participation and the reading comprehension achievement. After getting actions, the percentage of students' active participation increased from 55% or 20 students up to 77% or 29 students in Cycle 1 and 86% or 32 students in Cycle 2. Besides, there were 81% or 30 students who could reach the target score in Cycle 1 and 89% or 33 students who could reach the target score in Cycle 2. The mean was 75 before getting the actions, there were only 38% or 14 students who could reach that minimum score. This result showed that the use of subtitle narrative video in teaching reading comprehension could improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement.