Improving the Eighth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement and Their Active Participation through Roundtable Technique

Abstract

This research was intended to improve the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement and their active participation through roundtable technique. The design of this research was classroom action research. The research subjects were the students of grade VIIIA of SMPN 6 Situbondo. The research data were collected by reading comprehension test, observation, interview and documentation. This research was conducted in one cycle with two meetings. The mean score of the students’ reading comprehension test was 76. The average precentage result of the students’ act ive participation was 80%. This means that the use of roundtable technique was able to help the students to improve their active participation as well as their reading comprehension achievement in the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension.