ABSTRACT
MUH AMIN AMAL, 2012. The Use Scaffolded Reading Experience (SRE)
Strategy To Improve the Students’ Reading Skill in Narrative Materials (A classroom action research at
the third year students of SMP PGRI 2 Takalar), under the
thesis of English Education Department the Faculty of Teachers Training and
Education, Makassar Muhammadiyah University (guided by A. Tenri Ampa and Abd Muin)
This research aimed to explain the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension in terms of literal comprehension dealing with main ideas and sequence of details and interpretive comprehension dealing with
prediction of outcomes and conclusion.
To explain the improvement, the
researcher used a classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two
cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this
research was taken at the second year students of SMP PGRI 2 Takalar with a
number of the subject were 29 students.
The
research findings indicated that the application of Scaffolded Reading Experience (SRE)
Strategy was significant in improving the students’ reading
comprehension in terms of
literal comprehension and interpretive comprehension. It was proved by the mean score of cycle I was 62.84. It was classified as
fair then
improved to be
76.64. It was classified as good in
cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic
test namely 55.34
that classified as poor.
Therefore there was the
improvement of the students’ reading comprehension in terms of literal
comprehension dealing with
main ideas and sequence of details and interpretive comprehension dealing with prediction of
outcomes and conclusion.
