ENHANCING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT USING POSSE STRATEGY A Classroom Action Research of the Tenth Grade of DPK 2 at SMK N 9 Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2022/2023

Abstract

Reading comprehension is one of important skill refers to reading meaning, understanding, and entertaining that need high-order thinking skill and complex process. In fact, the students still have low reading comprehension achievement. The objective of the research was to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement using POSSE (Predict, Organize, Summarize, and Evaluate) strategy in analytical exposition text. This research was conducted in X DPK 2 grade of SMK N 9 Surakarta. The subject of the research was 35 students of X DPK 2 in the academic year of 2022/2023. The type of the research was classroom action research conducted in two cycles. Each cycles consisted two meetings. This research was analyzed in the form of descriptive qualitative. The result of this research showed that the use of POSSE strategy improves students reading comprehension. The improvement of students’ reading comprehension was reflected by the result of students’ mean score that improved from 21,71 in pre-cycle to 66 in the first cycle and 85 in the second cycle. Based on the result can be concluded that using POSSE strategy has positive impact on the students’ reading comprehension achievement of analytical exposition text.