The research was aimed at improving student’s comporehension in a
reading class using Reciprocal Teaching technique. It used classroom action
research (CAR) which was conducted at XI IS 2 students of SMA N 1 Banyumas
in academic year 2011/ 2012 as the subject of the research. The subject of the
class was 34 students. It was done for three weeks (1 August- 22 August 2011).
The researcher worked in collaboration with the English teacher in the
class. The CAR was carried out based on Kemmis and McTaggart design. The
researcher took two cycles with two actions in each cycle: in which each cycle
consisted of planning, acting, observing, and evaluating.
The data were collected through observation, reading test, (pre- test and
post- test), questionnaire, field note, and documentation. There were two kinds of
data analysis: qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative analysis was gained by
observation result in using Reciprocal Teaching technique that improved the
students’ reading comprehension in learning English. The quantitative analysis
was done by accounting the percentage of indicators of activities through pre-test
and post- test, and questionnaire result of students.
The result of the research showed that there was an improvement of
students’ reading comprehension. The improvement of students’ reading
comprehension in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 could be seen from the mean of pre - test
and post - test. The mean of pre - test was 78.23 and the mean of post - test in the
last Cycle was 92.21 and it had reached the indicator of the action success (17.85
%). The result of students’ observation in the classroom showed that there was an
improvement 17.23% from the mean of students’ activities in the end of the
Cycle 2.