ACITYA Journal of Teaching & Education
Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education

Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text Through Directed Reading-Thinking Activity Strategy

Ahmad Fawahid (Universitas Tanjungpura)
Y Gatot Sutapa Yuliana (Universitas Tanjungpura)
Luwandi Suhartono (Universitas Tanjungpura)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Jan 2023

Abstract

This study aim was to find out how directed reading-thinking activity strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The directed reading-thinking activity strategy was applied to teach the ninth grade students of SMPS Awaluddin in the academic year of 2021/2022. This study was a classroom action research. The research findings showed that the students paid attention to the teacher’s explanation, the students were very active and brave to ask the teacher, looked enthusiastic and understood the reading comprehension of narrative text through directed reading-thinking activity strategy. It also was proven by the students’ individual reading test, in which their scores got increase because many students’ individual score got 72 until 84 which included good category, and two students got 88 until 92 as excellent category. Therefore, it can be concluded that directed reading- thinking activity strategy successfully improved the students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The researcher hopes this strategy is used by the teachers in teaching reading comprehension.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

acitya

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

ACITYA Journal of Teaching & Education provides scientific article of teaching and education that can be publications of scientific articles, book reviews, original research reports, and reviews in education. This journal consists of three sections. Paper must be submitted according to the section. ...