Abstract:
This research was aimed to find out the significant improvement of the students
achievement in reading comprehension by applying Contextual Teaching and
Learning (CTL). The subject of this research was X grade of SMK Bandung-2 at
Academic Year 2017/2018. It consisted of one class with 30 students as
respondents. The objective was to discover the significant improvement of the
students’ achievement in reading comprehension by applying Contextual
Teaching and Learning (CTL). This research was conducted by using classroom
action research. The instruments of collecting data were observation sheet, and
tests. The result of data analysis showed that there was an improvement on the
students’ reading on narrative text from each cycle. It was showed from the mean
of pre-test which was 56.5 with persentage 0%. After CTL was applied in the first
cycle, there was an improvement of the result of the students’ in reading
comprehension the mean was 69.16 with persentage 33.3%. It means that there
was an improvement from pre-test to post-test I was 33.3%. And for the second
cycle after reflection on the first cycle, there was an improvement of students’
mean which was 85 with persentage 100%. Based on the result showed that there
was an improvement after applying CTL was 66.7%. It concluded that students’
achievement in reading comprehension by applying contextual teaching and
learning (CTL) improved
