IMPROVING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH FIX-UP STRATEGY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 7 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2021/2022

Abstract

This research was aimed to improve the students’ reading comprehension and the students’ learning activities using fix-up strategy at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 7 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2021/2022. The subject of the research consisted of thirty three students’17 male students’ and 17 female students’. This research was conducted by using classroom action research. It consisted of two cycles. There were four steps in each cycle of the research; planning, action, observing and reflection. For the data collecting technique, the writer used observation and test. The test was multiple choice test consisted of 40 questions, to get score of students’ reading comprehension. This research focused on improving the students’ reading comprehension and the students’ learning activities. The improvement of the students’ reading comprehension could be seen from the mean score of cycle I 59.58 and the mean score of cycle II was 80.88. So, the improvement of students’ reading comprehension during the first cycle to the second cycle reached 22.29 points. The improvement of the students’ learning activities could be seen from the average score of the students’ learning activities of cycle I was 33.09, while the second cycle was 37.38. So the improvement of students’ learning activities during the first cycle to the second cycle reached 4.29 points. It means that fix-up strategy can improve the students’ reading comprehension and the students’ learning activities at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 7 Bandar Lampung in the Academic Year of 2021/2022.