Kurnia, Dewi (2024) Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill Through Listen, Reading, Discuss (LRD) Strategy Of The Eight Graders Of SMPN 01 Metro Kibang. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out whether using LRD Strategy improves students' reading comprehension skills. The focus of this research is the reading comprehension skills of English students at SMP 1 Kibang. It is related on the problem identification that the student’s interest of reading is still low and still have difficulty in comprehending the text.The use of the LRD strategy can be done for build student activity in order to improve student reading comprehension skills.

This type of research is classroom action research (CAR) carried out in two cycles each cycle consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. In this study students were given a pre-test before treatment and post test after treatment. The subjects of this research are class students VIII 1 SMPN 1 Kibang, totaling 36 students. In data collection researchers used tests (pre test, post test 1 cycle 1 and post test 2 cycle 2), observations, and documentation.

The results of this research show an increase in understanding reading English students in class VIII SMPN 1 Kibang. This can be seen from improve in students' average scores on the pre-test and post-test. On the pre-test value the students' average was 61.67, and in post-test I the average score increased to 70.27, and in post-test II the average value improved to 78.33. And based on these results, it can be concluded that the LRD strategy is a strategy that can improve reading ability students, and this research can be said to be successful because of the specified criteria achieved well.

Key Word : Listen-Read-Discuss Strategy, Reading Comprehension Skill, Classroom Action Research (CAR)

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