IMPROVING THE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION TROUGH PROBLEM BASED LEARNING STRATEGY (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research to The First Year Students of SMAN 1 Jangka)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Reading comprehension is the ability of the students’ in understanding written text and to get the important information from reading text. Reading comprehension is one of the most important things in English and communication or used as a tool to understand among the nations in all over the world and should be mastered by the students’ at Senior High School level. Proficient reading depends on the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. Descriptive Text is a text which says what a person, place or thing is like. Its purpose describes and reveals a particular person, place or thing. The methodology of this research is collaborative classroom action research; the setting of this research was SMAN 1 Jangka. The sample of this research was the First year students of class I/I which total students was 19 students. The instruments were used in this research such as: test, observation sheet for the teacher and students, questionnaire, and field note. It was proved by the mean score of the cycle II better than cycle I. The mean score of cycle I was 58, 94% and categorized fair. The mean score for cycle II was 83, 15% and category Very Good, the result of observation checklist for teacher was 80, 47%, the result of observation checklist for students was 77,61% and the result of questionnaire was 3, 18. The result of the research proved that the use of Problem Based Learning Strategy in reading comprehension especially in Descriptive text is effective.  Â
Key Words: Reading Comprehension, Problem Based Learning Strategy.References
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