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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RECIPROCAL TEACHING METHOD TO THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON THE ELEVEN GRADES OF IPA 1 AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH PAMEKASAN

J. Zely Fitriani Lisandy

Abstract


Many techniques can be applied to solve the problems above, including Reciprocal Teaching Method because many research findings say that this technique is effective to the students’ reading comprehension. In this research, the researcher located at SMA Muhammadiyah Pamekasan. The approach of this reasearch is qualitative and the data are gotten by observation, interview and documentation. Then, those data are analyzed with analysis qualitative- descriptive and all of data gotten are checked the validity of the data. Reciprocal teaching refers to an instructional activity in which students become the teacher in small group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help students learn to guide group discussions using four strategies: Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying and  Summarizing. Reciprocal teaching is most effective in the context of small-group collaborative investigation, which is maintained by the teacher or reading tutor. The objectives of the study are (1) the researcher wanted to describe how the teacher implement reciprocal teaching method to the students’ reading comprehension on the eleven grades of IPA 1 at SMA Muhammadiyah Pamekasan is. (2) And the researcher wanted to figure out the students’ responses in studying reading by reciprocal teaching method. The result of the research shows that (1) The teacher implemented the reciprocal teaching well in the teaching and learning process. The teacher divided the class into five groups and gave the students worksheet, the teacher gave the students an analytical exposition text and asked them to do worksheet with their group, the teacher pointed the students one by one to read the result of the discussion and the teacher discuss together with the students about the material and giving the conclusions. (2) The reciprocal teaching method is able to make the students having more spirits to read and study reading comprehension because reciprocal teaching is an effective method to make the class more interesting. The result of the last research is  questionnaire for the learners. Most of the learners were happy to study reading by using reciprocal teaching method.

 

 


Keywords


Reading Comprehension, and Reciprocal Teaching.

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DOI: 10.53712/ellite.v1i1.527

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