The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Skill of Descriptive Text of Seventh Grade Students in SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus In Academic Year 2011/212(Classroom Action Research)

Reading determines the successful of any subject matters. All depend on the competence of reading skill. It is said that one of the goals of schooling is, enabling people to read and comprehend reading materials. The seventh grade students of SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus argue that reading is not interesting. As middle learners, they need something produced some observation to make them more active and stimulate their interest in order to create an enjoyable atmosphere of English reading activity so that they can build up their reading comprehension particularly to their understanding the content of texts given. The present of pictures as medium in teaching English reading is needed to ease up on students’ boring and make something abstract to be concrete. Understanding the fact, the researcher is eager to reciprocal teaching as technique to improve reading of the seventh grade students of SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus in academic year 2011/2012. This research aims are: (1) to find out the reading skill improvement of the seventh grade students of SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus taught by using Reciprocal Teaching to their improvement of understanding the content of texts This research applied a classroom action research. The research was conducted in the seventh grade students of SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus in during the second semester of academic year 2011/2012. The number of the students in the classroom was 12 students; all of them are female. Their ages range are from 13-14 years old. The data of this research was taken from the result of achievement test and the field note of observation sheets of those three cycles conducted. Enthusiasm, seriousness, and students’ involvement are aspects observed to indicate students’ engagement. The findings of the research showed that: (1) on cycle 1, there still were 6 (50%) students who had got scores under the KKM ( Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal) of English lesson already being determined, that is 65. The average score was 65.83 as sufficient of achievement category. The students’ engagement were not observable appear yet when being taught by using reciprocal teaching as new medium in reading (2) the total students who had got scores under the KKM (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal) got down from 6 (50%) as 3 (25%) and the average score was 69.25 as good in the achievement categorized. Enthusiasm, seriousness, and students’ involvement started to come into view (3) the numbers of students whose scores were under the KKM (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimum) got down from 3 (25%) on cycle 1 as (8%) on cycle 3.The result of the third reading comprehension test was optimal that the mean score got was 72.58 as good of achievement category. To be enthusiastic, more seriously, and get involved actively were appeared on this cycle. This research comes to the conclusion that reciprocal teaching as a technique can improve the reading skill of the seventh grade students of SMP Islam Integral Luqman al Hakim Kudus in academic year of 2011/2012. Thus, the researcher suggests that a teacher must be creative, active, and always give motivation and support to the students in order to create good learning experience by using reciprocal teaching as technique in teaching English reading