Improving the Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text by Using Tea Party Strategy at Eighth Grade of MTsN Bahorok in 2016/2017 Academic Years

Abstract

This study deals with improving student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text by using Tea Party Strategy. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The population of the research was class VIII-2 MTsN Bahorok. It was conducted in one class which consisting of 30 students. This research was conducted in two cycles and each cycles consisted of three meeting. The research designs are quantitative and qualitative. The instrument of research are multiple choice which consisting 20 items. Based on the multiple choice test scores, the student’s score keep improving in every test. In the pre-test the mean score was 43.66. In the first cycle test the mean score was 69.00 and in the second cycle test the mean score was 94.00. The improvement also can bee seen from the presentage of students’ achievement in reading comprehension. In pre-test only 3 students got 70 points (10%). In first competence test 22 students got 70 points (73.33%). It means there was an improvement about 63.33 %. In the second competence test 30 students got 70 points (100%). The improvement was 26.67%. There was also improvement of students’ behaviour and participation in the class. In first cycle, some students could not pay attention and focus on teacher’s presentation. Neverthless, in the second cycle, they were able to focus and participated on the teacher’s command. The students looked interesting and focused when answering the questions. It could be concluded that Tea Party strategy could improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text.