IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITYIN READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH READ, ORDER, DISCUSSION, AND EXPRESS (RODE) TECHNIQUE (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research to The Second Year Students of SMA Negeri 2 Lhokseumawe)

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This thesis entitled “Improving Students Reading Comprehension by Using Read, Order, Discussion and Express (RODE) Technique (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research to The Second Year Students of SMA Negeri 2 Lhokseumawe)â€. From the observation done, the researcher put two problems of this research with the questions; first, how effective does Read, Order, Discussion and Express (RODE) technique improve students’ reading comprehension in hortatory exposition text? Second, how do the students respond toward Read,Order, Discussion and Express (RODE) Technique in the teaching-learning process of reading at the second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Lhokseumawe? The purposes of this research are; To figure out the effectiveness of RODE technique the students ability in reading comprehension and to find out the effect of RODE technique to the reading comprehension ability of the second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Lhokseumawe. The researcher used collaborative classroom action research in doing the research. In this case, qualitative and quantitative research methodology were combined by the researcher. Based on qualitative research methodology, the researcher used test, observation sheet, questionnaires, and field notes as the instrument of the research to observe, learn, write down the important things from teachers’ and students’ activities in the classroom. Based on quantitative research methodology, the researcher and teacher gave test to the students. Test in cycle 1 and test in cycle 2 were given to know how far the RODE technique improve students’ reading comprehension. The researcher and teacher got that the mean score of students test in cycle 1 was 56.05, and test in cycle 2 was 67. Then the result of the observation sheet for teacher shown that in the cycle 1, the teacher score was 69% and in the cycle 2 was 84.6%. and for the students’ activities in the cycle 1 was 62%, while in the cycle 2 was 80.6%. and for the questionnaire result score was 3.27. And also the students had positive response toward the implementation of RODE technique. Therefore, the researcher concluded that RODE technique could improve students reading comprehension, this technique can solve the students problem in learning reading comprehension in the classroom, and also brought the new situation for the students to be active in reading comprehension in the classroom.

 

Keywords : Reading Comprehension, Read, Order, Discussion and Expres (RODE) Technique