in students’ learning how to construct the meaning when they have tests or assignments in the classroom.Here, the teacher will give the instruction to the
students to follow the steps of reciprocal technique, there are predicting, questioning,clarifying and the last is summarizing
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Thus, reciprocal teaching technique is a technique in teaching by using dialogue between the teacher and the
students which include four steps there are questioning, predicting, clarifying and the last is summarizing.
In sum up, reciprocal teaching technique is a technique that is represented as dialogue between the students and the teacher. Here, the students will be
divided into several groups and in each group there is a leader to lead their group in dialogue. After that, the students will follows the four steps of reciprocal
teaching technique, there are predicting, questioning, clarifying and the last is summarizing the text that they read.
2. The Purpose of the Reciprocal Teaching Technique
Based on Pallincsar and Brown, the purposes of reciprocal teaching are:
a. To improve students’ reading comprehension by using four strategies there
are predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.
b. To scaffold the four strategies by modeling, guiding, and applying the strategies while reading.
c. To guide students to think about their own thinking and reflective in their strategy use.
d. To help students monitor their comprehension using the four strategies. e. To use social nature of learning to improve reading.
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It means that, the purpose of reciprocal teaching is to help the students in improving their reading comprehension by using four strategies predicting,
questioni ng, clarifying and summarizing, to develop the students’ thinking, and
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Carolyn J. Carter, Why Reciprocal Teaching?, the article was accessed on January 9
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2013, p. 66.
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Wa Ying College, Learning Reading Strategies together through Reciprocal Teaching, the article was accessed on January 2013, p. 217.
to improve students reading comprehension by using social nature group in their learning in the classroom.
Furthermore, Izquierdo stated that the purpose of reciprocal teaching to provide the students to communicate to the teacher and between them during
learning process is going on. And also it is to improve their communicative competence in the world outside the classroom.
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Using reciprocal teaching technique and follows its steps, the students can improve their communicative
competence, because they are always trained to communicate to the teacher or between the students it self.
In addition, Cotterall assumed that reciprocal teaching involves students in using the target language to debate ideas and interpretation, helping them to call
on their knowledge of the world, their previous experience of reading and their knowledge of L2 to help them make sense of the text that they read.
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It means that, reciprocal teaching technique also invites the students to predict and think in
target language as they read in text. To conclude, the purpose of reciprocal teaching technique is to improve
their reading comprehension by following four steps of reciprocal technique, there are predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarizing. And also, reciprocal
teaching technique is to train them to communication well between the students and the teacher or between the students it self. Then, it is to
build students’ comprehension in reading cooperatively by using target language in order to make
sense to the text that they read.
3. The Strategy of the Reciprocal Teaching Technique
