IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION SKILL USING PEER-ASSISTED LEARNING STRATEGY

The purpose of reading is comprehension, getting meaning from written text. A major goal of reading comprehension instruction is to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and experiences become a good reader. A learning disability in reading comprehension affects the learner’s ability to understand the meaning of words and passages. Some students with a learning disability in reading comprehension can read aloud with little or no difficulty pronouncing words, but they do not understand or remember what they have read. Based on the problems above, this research is aimed to know the influence of students’ reading comprehension skill using PeerAssisted Learning Strategy. The method of the research is a classroom action research. It used three cycles and each cycle consisted of four steps; planning, acting, observation and reflecting. It was conducted at the Universitas Indraprasta PGRI Jakarta with the total population of 60 students. The first cycle, the students got the average score 71,5 (42%). In the second cycle, they got the average score 74,8 (72,4%). While in the third cycle, they got 77,9 (90,7%). Base on the fact above the researcher concluded that Peer-Assisted Learning Strategy can improve the students’ reading comprehension skill. Abstrak