Teaching Efl Reading Skill Using Reciprocal Teaching Strategy: A Classroom Action Research

The present study’s objective is to explore whether reciprocal teaching strategy can improve students’ reading skill in Indonesian EFL classroom. Reciprocal teaching consists of four steps, i.e., predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. The researcher employs a classroom action research design using two cycles. Research sample of this study consists of 24 students. According to this research findings, the employment of reciprocal teaching strategy can increase students' learning activities and reading skills. Therefore, since it is demonstrated as being effective for teaching reading skill, reciprocal teaching strategy can be recommended to be implemented for teaching EFL reading skill.