Akmal Hanif Primary Author mixed material bibliography Banda Aceh Universitas Syiah Kuala 2016 id Indonesia

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Abstract Name : Akmal Hanif Student Number : 1006102020015 Study Program : English Education Title : Improving Students’Reading Skill by Using Reciprocal Teaching Strategy (RTS) (An Experimental Study at The Second Years Students of MAS Al-Manar Aceh Besar) Keywords: Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Comprehension Reciprocal teaching strategy is a process to comprehend text by using four steps which is done by teacher and the students to build their speculation about the text, which is prediction, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing (palinscar & Brown, 1984). The sample of this study was class XIb which consisted of 14 students. The writer used purposive sampling to choose the sample. This study used one group pretest-posttest design; it is one of research designs in experimental research. The instruments used in this study were tests; they were pretest and post-test. Both pre-test and post-test consisted of twenty questions. The materials used in the test were hortatory exposition texts. This research was analyzed by using t-test formula. The calculation result showed that t value is higher than t table (10.035 > 1.771), at the 0.05 level significance. It means that alternatives hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. So, it can be concluded that using reciprocal teaching strategy in teaching reading has improved students’ reading comprehension. 0 ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATION Universitas Syiah Kuala 21239 2016-04-23 11:45:15 2016-04-25 10:22:17 machine generated