RIDER STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

Reading is one of skill in English that can help students to gain more information and knowledge. One of strategies in teaching reading comprehension that is RIDER (Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, Repeat) strategy. The objective of this research was to know the implementation of RIDER strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension ability. The researcher applied Classroom Action Research (CAR) in this study. The subject of this research was students of XI MA Ma’arif Balong, Ponorogo. The number of students is 27 students. The study carried out in two cycle. The data gathered through interview, observation, documentation, and test. The data were analyzed using quantitative descriptive. The result of this study showed that: (1) After implementing the RIDER strategy, the students are more interested in English reading.  The students’ ability in reading comprehension has improved. (2) There was significance improvement after implementing RIDER strategy. It can be seen clearly from the students’ achievement in pre-test score was 44.81. It means there were only 14% of the whole students could passed KKM. Then, in cycle I, the mean of score was 62.22. There were 29% students passed KKM. Next, the mean score of cycle 2 score was 77.96. It means that 100 % students got the score above KKM. The Minimum Mastery Criterion (KKM) of English lesson was 6.8. Based on the result above, it can be concluded that the RIDER strategy was effective enough to improve the students’ reading comprehension ability.