Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension by Using Direct Instruction at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Langsa

Reading is one of the skills in learning a foreign language. It is considered as one of important skill than others. It is caused reading is a basic skill which has to be mastered by students to discover other skill or knowledge. In SMP Negeri 2 Langsa, the seventh grade students have many troubles in reading comprehension skill. Therefore, the researcher tried an approach to help students in reading comprehension. In this step, the researcher applied direct instruction approach. Direct instruction is one of the approaches which are set particularly to complete the students’ learning process which has related to declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge, which is set in order and can be taught step by step. Therefore, the English teacher can teach and monitor the students’ reading comprehension in detail. In the other hand, the English teacher also can study the development of the students’ reading comprehension in every step.