IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM OF MAN BAWU JEPARA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013 BY USING ANNOTATING TEXT STRATEGY

In Indonesia, English was a selection of a foreign language to serve Indonesians for international communication since the early period of Indonesia’s independence onwards. Indonesians must be prepared in good skill of communication and knowledge. Only by having good reading skill, they will become effectively person to compete in 21st century. Reading is also as an important skill to improve their overall capacity for life-long learning and whole-person development. Since it is urgent, Indonesian’s students must have good capability in reading comprehension. Unfortunately, they are not indicated have good capability in reading comprehension. It also happened to students of the grade XI students of MAN Bawu Jepara in the Academic Year 2012/2013. As result, they must be prepared with good strategy of learning to improve their capability of reading comprehension. Based of the problem above, the objectives of this research are (i) to find out whether Annotating Text strategy is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension of the grade XI students of MAN Bawu Jepara in the Academic Year 2012/2013, (ii) to find out the strengths and weaknesses of using Annotating Text strategy in improving the students’ reading comprehension of the grade XI students of MAN Bawu Jepara in the Academic Year 2012/2013. To achieve the objectives of the research, the writer conducted a classroom action research. It was held at MAN Bawu Jepara started from April until May 2013. By conducting two cycles, it was found that Annotating Text strategy is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The difference of these cycles was on the way to bring Annotating Text strategy in the class. The writer used field note, observation sheet, and some test to monitor the process and the students’ improvement. To analyze these data, the writer used a descriptive qualitative and a simple quantitative measurement. The finding of the research reveals that Annotating Text strategy is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension of the grade XI students of MAN Bawu Jepara in the Academic Year 2012/2013. The data showed that in the first cycle was 40% students fulfilled the minimum passing grade criterion (> 72) and the average score in cycle 1 was 71,48. Then in the second cycle, there were 94, 285% students of whole language program class fulfilled the minimum passing grade criterion (> 72). The average score was 78, 857 which the total scores was 2760. Furthermore, from the analyzing the questionnaire showed that Annotating Text strategy was effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension. It was found also some strengths and it also was found the weaknesses. Due to the fact above, it is suggested to the English teacher to consider about using Annotating Text strategy in the teaching learning process. It caused Annotating Text strategy is as an effective alternative strategy to trigger the students’ comprehension of the text especially English text