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Collaborative Strategic Reading to Improve Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP 1 Jati Kudus in Academic Year 2011/2012
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Institusion
Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Haeroh, Nor Ismah A
Subject
Bahasa Inggris 
Datestamp
2013-03-18 02:56:25 
Abstract :
English is one of subject in Junior High School. As one of the language skills, reading is important for the students. And in the reading activity the students are expected to have competence in comprehending the text. But the students still have difficulties; the students have no indication that they know what they are doing when they are asked to read and do reading task. Collaborative Strategic Reading is proposed as an alternative approach to solve the problems. Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a technique of teaching reading comprehension which combines reading comprehension strategy and also working together cooperatively. The research is designed to improve students’ reading comprehension of narrative text being taught by Collaborative Strategic Reading. The objective of the research is to find out whether or not there is significant difference between the reading comprehension of narrative text of the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Jati Kudus in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using Collaborative Strategic Reading. The design of this research is a quasi experiment. This research uses one group of pre-test and post test design.The population of this research are the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Jati kudus in the academic year 201/2012 which consist of 268 students. The sample of this research is VIII H of SMP 1 Jati kudus. The writer uses reading narrative text as the material and prepares 40 multiple choices for the instrument of the research. In finding a significant difference between two variables, the writer conducted t-test for dependent sample. The calculation of the collected data results that in the level significance 0.05 or 5% and degree of freedom (df) 31, the t observation (t0) is 13,25 and the t test (tt) is 2.04. It means that t0 > tt (t observation is higher than t table). Based on the result of the research above, the researcher concludes that the use of Collaborative Strategic Reading for the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Jati Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 can improve their reading comprehension of narrative text. The researcher also expects that Collaborative Strategic Reading can be used as one of alternative teaching techniques to teach reading.  
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Universitas Muria Kudus