Abstract:
In learning English at junior high school, there are four skills that should be mastered by
students, namely reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In term of reading, it is
thinking process that is an activity to get information or an idea. Also, it gives a great
contribution to the readers who are willing to gain information and increase their
knowledge. This action research was supposed to the use of DRTA strategy to improve
reading ability of the second year students of SMPN 12 Pekanbaru in comprehending
narrative texts. The objectives of this research is to find out whether the using of DRTA
strategy can improve the ability of the second year students of SMP Negeri 12 Pekanbaru
in comprehending narrative texts. However, the teacher have tried many ways to teach the
students, but the fact is there are still many students could not comprehend the text well.
The problem that the writer intends to discusss in this paper is concerned with the reading
comprehension ability. The reason for choosinh the strategy because, it could help the
students to activate their prior knowledge. Besides, it can give a contribution to other
tachers to innovate learning strategy, especially utilizing DRTA strategy, so that they can
incrase both teaching-learning quality and the students’ learning achievement. By doing
this research, the writer assumed that the students have comprehended narrative texts.
