Abstract:
This study dealt with the implementation of RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember,
Retell) Strategy to improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension. It
aimed 1) to investigate the improvement on the students’ reading achievement by
appying RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) Strategy 2) to describe the
students’ activities in reading comprehension through the implementation of
RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) Strategy, and 3) to describe the teacher’s
performance in reading comprehension by applying RCRR (Read, Cover,
Remember, Retell) Strategy. This study was conducted by using Classroom
Action Research (CAR). Descriptive qualitative and quantitative design were
applied to do the research. The subject of this research was all students in X-IIK-1
that consisted of 34 students. There were two kinds of data collected in this
research, namely quatitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were
taken from the students’ scores on reading comprehension, while the qualitative
ones obtained from the observation of students’ activity and teacher’s
performance in learning process. Those data were analyzed quantitatively and
qualitatively. The research findings showed that there was an improvement of
students’ scores after appying RCRR Strategy; In Pre-test, the students’ average
score was 50.58 (no one got score more than 80), in Cycle I, the students’ average
score was 75.29 (18 people got score more than 80) and in Cycle II the students’
average score was 87.05 (34 students got score more than 80). It meant that there
was improvement from Cycle I to Cycle II at 47.06%. It was also found that the
students’ activities and teacher’s performance increased;the average percentage of
students’ activity in the learning process was 58.46% in the first cycle and
increased to 80% in the second. While, the teacher’s activity in learning had
improved well with the average percentage of 52.20% in the first cycle and
75.11% in second cycle. Based on the results from quantitative and qualitative
data analysis proved that RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) Strategy
improved the students’ achievement in reading comprehension
