Ariyani, Sela (2017) Improving Reading Comprehension Ability by Using Pause, Prompt, Praise (PPP) Strategy at The Eleventhgraders of SMA N 2 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Reading is one of four basic language skills that shouldbe mastered by the students. By reading, the students get much knowledge, information, and all they need in the learning process.Moreover, students often ignored to mastering this skill. This conditionwhich wasresearcher foundat the eleventh graders of SMA Metro. Metro where many students haddifficulties in English learning especially in reading comprehension ability, so it caused their result of learning waslow. Hence, to improvethe students’ reading comprehension ability, the researcher usedPPP in learning process. PPP is one of strategy that effective and easy to be applied in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this researchwasto know whether the useof PPP strategy can improvethe students’ reading comprehensionabilityat the eleventh graders of SMA N 2 Metro.

The kind of this research isclassroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Objectof this research is thestudents’reading comprehensionability. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, observation, documentationand fieldnote. This research was conducted with an English teacher of SMA N 2 Metro that was Mrs. Dwi Agusriani, S.S.The result of this research showes that PPP strategy has positive role in improvingreading comprehension ability at the eleventh graders of SMA Metro. It can be proved by the students’average score from pre test to post test. The average score in pre test was 59.13 and in post test was 70.34 became79.48. It means that the use of PPP strategy in reading, especially report text can improvethe students’ reading comprehension ability.

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