ABSTRACT
This study is conducted to identify 1) the students’ skill improvement in reading report text and 2) class situation in which text-marking is implemented in the reading class at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 5 Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015
The method used in this action research was classroom action research. The research was conducted from February 1st until May 22nd 2015. Every research cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. There are qualitative and quantitative data collected in this research. The qualitative data were collected by interviewing, surveying, and observing whereas the quantitative data were collected by designing pre-test and post-test.
The findings showed that the implementation of text-marking could improve students’ skill in reading report text and classroom situation. The students’ mean score of five basic reading’ skill indicators as 1) finding main idea and topic, 2) determining reference, 3) determining word meaning based on context, 4) finding explicit and detailed information, and 5) finding implicit information was increasing. The improvements of class situation included 1) students focused to their learning, 2) students became active and enthusiast so that classroom situation was conducive, 3) students were willing to discuss about learning difficulty with their friends and the teacher.
The mean score had the advancement from 63.4 in the pre-test, while in the post-test 1 77.7 and 81.5 in the post-test 2.
Key words: reading skill, report text, text-marking.