Open AccessIMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH LISTEN–READ–DISCUSS (LRD) STRATEGY AT MA NURUSSABAH PRAYA TENGAH
Author(s) -
Terasne Terasne,
Nanang Sugianto,
Abdul Wahab,
Maria Ulfa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of english language teaching fakultas pendidikan bahasa dan seni program studi pendidikan bahasa inggris ikip mataram
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-5865
pISSN - 2355-0309
DOI - 10.33394/jo-elt.v5i2.2310
Subject(s) - test (biology) , reading comprehension , reading (process) , qualitative property , mathematics education , psychology , comprehension , computer science , action research , test score , significant difference , mathematics , standardized test , statistics , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , machine learning , biology , programming language
This research was aimed at describe whether listen-read-discuss (LRD) strategy be able to improve students’ reading comprehension or not. It was a classroom action research. The data collected uses quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data was gained from the result of pre-test and post-test from reading test. Meanwhile, qualitative data was gained from the result of observation sheets toward students and teachers activity. The instrument uses were test and observation sheet. The result shows that the strategy be able to improve the students’ reading comprehension in report text. The improvement can be seen from the mean score of students from pre-test, post-test one, and post-test two. The mean score of pre-test was 69.5 (35%), there were seven students who passed the minimum passing grade, in the post-test one, 72.2 (60%), twelve students passed the minimum passing grade and in the post-test two, 78.25 (85%), seventeen students passed the minimum passing grade (KKM).