Reciprocal Teaching as a Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Skill

Abstract

This paper aims to describe how Reciprocal Teaching implemented as a strategy to improve students’ reading skill. Reciprocal Teaching is a strategy in which students take turn assuming the role of “teacher” in their small group to conduct the four comprehension components: predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. It involves a high degree of social interaction and collaboration, since students gradually learn to assume the role of teacher in helping their peers construct meaning from text. The role of “teacher” should be rotated on a regular basis, so that all students have a chance to be the leader of the group. After, overall, Reciprocal Teaching is a great way to teach students how to determine important ideas from a reading text while discussing vocabulary, developing ideas and questions, and summarizing information.