Abstract :
Reading is one of the four skills that should be mastered by students in
the English learning process. By reading a passage, students were able to get
information and help them to learn more about English. Unfortunately, it was
often difficult to make students become interested in the reading passage
especially in the foreign language. Giving such interesting materials and
differences nuances of teaching learning process will be motivated students to
read in English.
The research in this final project was focused on the use of cultural
approach in teaching reading by using science articles in ?Hello? magazines as a
media. It aimed to improve students? skills in reading comprehension. This study
was carried out under the consideration that the students often encounter problems
in comprehending the text passage.
The research was done in the form of action research, which was
conducted through two cycles of activities. It was done to gain the data from
students? reading comprehensions improvement using cultural approach in
teaching learning process. The data were collected in both qualitative and
quantitative forms. The qualitative data were collected from questionnaires,
whereas the quantitative data were collected from the result of the sequence of
reading test.
The result of the study showed that the students? skill in reading text
increased. The sequence treatment using cultural approach was given to the
students in the purposes of improving their knowledge about science information
and solve theirs in understanding reading text.