Improving Students' Reading Comprehension of Expository Texts Through Learning Together Strategy at Third A Semester English Department STKIP "Tapanuli Selatan" Padangsidimpuan

This study was designed to find out how learning together strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension of expository problem solution texts at third semester of English department STKIP “Tapanuli Selatan” Padangsidimpuan. Besides, this research was also purposed to find out the factors that influenced the improvement. This study was classroom action research with 34 students as participants. This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles; each cycle consisted of four meetings. Qualitative data were collected from observation and interview that used observation sheet and field notes. To support qualitative data as the proof in improving students’ reading comprehension, quantitative data were collected from students’ result test that were given at the end of cycles. To help data collection, the researcher asked the other lecturer to become a collaborator. The finding of this research shows that ‘LTS’ can improve students’ reading comprehension that is caused by factors materials, media, students’ activities, classroom management and lecturers’ approach in teaching.