The Implementation of RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) Strategy to Improve Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension

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