TEACHERS’ VERBAL REINFORCEMENT STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT FOR THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS IN SMAN 1 LUNANG KABUPATEN PESISIR SELATAN

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Abstract

 The purpose of this research was to identify the teacher’s use of verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text at SMAN 1 Lunang Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan. This study was particularly aimed (1) to identify teachers’ implementation of the verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text (2) to identify students’ perception about teacher’s use of the verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text (3) to find out the students’ reading improvement as a result of the verbal reinforcement strategy. The design of this research was descriptive. Population of this research was 178 students of the first year students of SMAN 1 Lunang Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan. The data were collected from interview, questionnaire, and reading test. Interview was applied to identify the way in which teacher use of verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text. Questionnaire was used to identify the students’ perception about the teacher’s use of verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text. And test was used to identify students’ ability in comprehending narrative text as the effect of teaching verbal reinforcement strategy. The result of analyzing data showed that most of teacher use verbal reinforcement strategy. Students’ perception about the teachers’ use of verbal reinforcement strategy in teaching reading comprehension was positive. In spite of this, students’ ability in comprehending narrative text as the effect of verbal reinforcement strategy was moderate.

Keywords: verbal reinforcement strategy, reading comprehension, narrative text