The objective of this study is to find out whether Comic-strips or Text is effective in improving students reading comprehension in teaching narrative. This study was conducted at SMPN 19 South Jakarta. The school is former-RSBI school. It is located at Jl.Bumi Blok E 21 Kebayoran Baru Jakarta Selatan. The study started from January and ended in July 2014. The writer took for two classes as…

This paper addresses Teacher's belief (lecturer's belief) in assessing their students' comprehension in English reading at the first semester. The focus of this research divided on three points: (1) how lecturers adapt their beliefs with first year student who are identified as dependent and passive learners who still applied their learning style while they were in high school, (2) how lecturer…

The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference result of reading comprehension between gender (male and female), whether there is any significant difference result of reading comprehension in the use of reading strategies (cognitive-metacognitive), and whether there is a significant interaction of gender differences and the use of reading strategie…

This study is aimed to investigate English teachers of Junior High Schools in Kota Serang in constructing syllabus – based reading comprehension construction, test specifications – based reading comprehension construction, multiple choice design, types of questions used of the first semester summative test in academic year 2011/2012, and the content of lesson plan. Qualitative method is us…

The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of two strategies DRTA and Webbing in enhancing students‟ reading comprehension at Narrative text. DRTA and Webbing are two strategies which are used in pre – reading activity. There are three phases in DRTA strategy namely predict, read and revise. This strategy helps students‟ readiness in facing the reading mat…

The purpose of this research is to analyze students’ barriers in reading comprehension in their classroom. Specifically, this research tries to answer the questions “What barriers do the students encounter in comprehending English texts? Why did they find those as barriers? And, what strategies do they use to overcome those barriers? In this research, the data was gathered by doing the c…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade VIII students who are taught by using Collaborative Reading Strategy; (2) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade VIII students who are taught by using Reciprocal Reading Strategy; (3) wheth…

The research compared the use of predictive reading technique and Conventional Technique (GTM) in teaching reading comprehension. Predictive Reading Technique was a reading technique in which the reader is asked to apply his/her background knowledge as well by using picture. Meanwhile, Conventional Technique (GTM) focused on translating grammatical forms, memorizing vocabulary, and learning rul…

The objective of this research was to get the empirical evidence whether there is an improvement of using Quipper for students’ English reading skill at the eleventh grade students of SMA Al- Chasanah Jakarta. The method of the research was involved in a classroom action research study. This kind of study conducted in a classroom and saw the process of the students’improvement through the …

The purpose of this study to prove whether there is correlation of language components (grammar and vocabulary) mastery and students' background knowledge to their reading comprehension at Islamic senior high school of Mathla'ul Falah Lempuyang Serang Banten. The researcher used the quantitative method in this study through simple and multiple regressions. The data were collected through langua…