Improving Students' Reading Comprehension by Using Score Strategy at the Grade XI of Office Administration Program of SMK Budi Mulia Solok

Reading comprehension is one of the important aspects in studying English that has
to be done by the students. Based on the researcher’s experiences and observation as a
teacher, the problem faced by most of the students at Office Administration Program was low
mark in reading comprehension test or the mean score was under the Minimum Achievement
Criteria (KKM). The problem was assumed caused of some factors. One of them was lack of
the students’ knowledge about reading strategy. As a result, they were hard to get
information or ideas of the text. This research was a classroom Action Research. The
purposes of this research was to explain whether SCORE strategy improve the students’
reading comprehension and what factors that influence the changes of students reading
comprehension.
This research was conducted in 2 cycles. There were four meetings in each cycle. The
participants of this research were the class XI students of Office Administration Program of
SMK Budi Mulia Solok. The data of this research was collected through reading
comprehension test, observation, field notes and interviews. At the end of each cycle, the
researcher gave a reading comprehension test to see the improvement made by the students.
in collecting the data, the researcher was helped by his college, an English teacher as a
collaborator. The finding of this research showed that SCORE strategy could improve the
students’ reading comprehension. The improvement was influenced by several factors such
as material, media, classroom activities, classroom management, teacher’ strategy and
teacher’s approach. Therefore, it could be concluded that suing SCORE strategy can better
improve the students’ reading comprehension at Grade XI of Office Administration Program
of SMK Budi Mulia solok