Using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta) Strategyto Improve The Ability Of The Second Year Students Of SMP Negeri 12 Pekanbaru In Comprehending Narrative Texts

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.