The Use of Listen-Read-Discuss (L-R-D) Strategy to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension at MAN 2 Banyuwangi

Abstract

Reading skill is one of the language skills that must be owned by the students in learning English. In fact, many students still have problems in reading English texts.This research was intended to improve the XI IPA 3 students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement by using Listen – Read – Discuss Strategy at senior high school in Banyuwangi. The participants were the students of class XI IPA 3. The class was chosen as the participants because most students had problems with reading comprehension, mainly to understand the content of the text and to answer the reading comprehension questions of the text. Besides, many students still got bad scores (below the score of KKM) in the reading test. Furthermore, the students were still passive in the reading teaching learning process and their motivation in reading English texts is still low. This condition could be caused by the teaching technique used by the English teacher in teaching reading was still conventional. To solve the students’ problem with reading comprehension, this classroom action research design with the cycle model was conducted. Each cycle covered four stages of activities, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action, evaluating and reflecting of the action. In this research, the data were collected by reading comprehension test and observation. The data collected from reading comprehension test were analyzed quantitatively to find the students’reading comprehension achievement, Then, the data collected from observation were analyzed descriptively to find the percentage of the students’ active participation. Based on the results of reading comprehension test and observation in the first cycle, it could be concluded that the use of Listen-Read-Discuss Strategy could improve the students’ reading comprehension achievement and their reading comprehension achievement in the reading teaching learning process. It means that the students’ reading comprehension achievement was better after they were taught reading by using LRD strategy. Therefore, the English teacher is suggested to use this strategy as an alternative technique in the teaching of reading to improve their reading comprehension achievement,</P