INCREASING READING COMPREHENSION BY USING RETELLIN IN RECOUNT TEXT

The aim of this research was to find out whether there was an increase of the students‟ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through Retelling in Recount Text. Retelling is one of technique which are considered applicable and useful in increasing reading comprehension achievement. It increases both the quantity and quality of what is comprehended. This quantitative research applied one group pretest posttest design. The population of this study was the first grade students of SMAN 2 Tulang Bawang Udik, Tulang Bawang Barat. Two classes were selected in this research, one class served as try out class and the other was assigned as experimental class. Pretest-posttest items were employed to obtain the data. The collected data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure t-Test with Statistically Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 17.0. Based on the calculation of t-Test, the result showed that the students‟ mean score of posttest in experimental class (63.23) was higher than pretest (47. 93) with the gained score was 15.30. The t-test also revealed that the result was significant (p .05, p= .000). Thus, it is concluded that there was an increase in students‟ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through retelling.Keywords: reading comprehension, recount text, retelling