Abstract:
This study deals with the The Effectiveness of Talking Drawing Strategy to
Improve Students‟ Ability in Reading Comprehension. It aimed to investigate the
improvement on the students‟ reading ability, describe the students‟ activities, and
describe the teacher‟s performance in reading comprehension by applying Talking
Drawing Strategy . This study was conducted by using Classroom Action
Research (CAR). The subject of this research was all students in VII-1 at SMP N
17 Medan, that consisting of 32 students of 2019/2020 academic year. 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 applying Talking Drawing Strategy
In Pre-test, the students‟ average score was 60.5 (no one got score more than 80),
in Cycle I, the students‟ average score was 75.0 and in Cycle II the students‟
average score was 90.0. It was also found that the students‟ activities and
teacher‟s performance increased; the average percentage of students‟score was
59.66% in cycle I and 81.37% in cycle II While, the teacher‟s activity in learning
had improved well with the average percentage of 55.00% in the first cycle and
76.10% in second cycle. In conclusion, talking drawing strategy was effective to
improve students‟ ability in reading Comprehension
