Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability In Descriptive Text Through Flashcard

-There are four skills in English skill, one of them is
Reading. By reading the students may comprehend what the
content of the text is. This paper aimsto find out the improvement of the students’ readingcomprehension ability in descriptive text through flashcard. The subject of the study was eighth year students, there were 37 students. The design of this research was Classroom Action Research, The instrument of this research was test : pre-test and post test. After the data had been collected and analyzed,the finding of pre- test showed that from 37 students the category of students’ achievement was very low, only 1 students got the passed and 36 students hadn’t gotten passed by the average was 52,56.h In a post test, at cycle I, there were 2 students got the passed and 35 students hadn’t gotten the passed with the average was 65, 27, it was caused by there was not media. So based on the cycle I, the researcher continued to the next cycle, it used flashcard media. There were 13 students got very high, 16 students were high and 8 students were in Medium. Finnally,it was concluded that by using flashcard could improve students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text on eighth year students. Flashcard helps the students to be more understand in answering the question of the text and also it saves the time efficiently.