IMPROVING THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT BY USING INDONESIAN FABLES AT SMP N 2 AMBULU JEMBER

Abstract : This article is intended to describe the research result on the use of Indonesian Fables in improving VIII D Grade students’ participation and their reading comprehension achievement. The research problem was the students’ experienced difficulties in comprehending words, sentences, paragraph and text of the reading material. To solve this problem, the material in the form of Narrative (Fables) was used to improve students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement. The research design was classroom action research and the primary data were collected by using reading comprehension test and observation. The result of the research showed that the use of Indonesian Fables could improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement. Key Words: Reading comprehension achievement, students’ participation, Indonesian Fables