Improving Students' Reading Achievement through Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text (GIST) Strategy

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the improvement of students' achievement in reading comprehension by applying GIST Strategy. This research had been conducted by applying Classroom Action Research in two cycles. The subjects of this research was the VIII grade students of SMP Asuhan Jaya Medan of 2019/ 2020 academic year and its english teacher. The research data were taken by giving test to students about reading comprehension and observation sheets. The data of this research were the students' score reading comprehension and observation sheets about students' activities and teacher's performance in learning process. Those data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings show that there was the improvement of students achievement in reading comprehension from pre-test (47.14) cycle I (63.21) to cycle II (78.92). The improvement were also supported by the increase of students' activity in learning process 64.25% in cycle I to be 85.5% in cycle II and teacher's performance in teaching process 58.75% in cycle I became 79.78% in cycle II. It was concluded that the students' achievement in reading comprehension improved well by applying GIST Strategy.