Improving Students’ Reading comprehension Through Descriptive Text By Using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) at Eight Year Students of Junior High School of Nurul Islam Jember in Academic Year 2020/2021

Satif, Oryza Eka (2021) Improving Students’ Reading comprehension Through Descriptive Text By Using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) at Eight Year Students of Junior High School of Nurul Islam Jember in Academic Year 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Reading is also one of the skills in English that must be learned continuously. This research focused on reading skill. It is related to the problem identification that students felt difficult in understanding reading such as finding the meaning of the word/vocabulary, finding the specific information, the main idea of paragraph, and giving conclusion The aim of this research was to improve students‟ reading comprehension by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). This research was conducted at class VIII F of SMP Nurul Islam Jember. This research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) using Kemmish and Mc Taggart which consisted of four steps, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher conducted two cycles. Each consisted of three meetings, two meetings to implement the action and one meeting students‟ reading test or post test. In planning the action, the researcher and collabolator prepared lesson plan based on the data from preliminary study which refers to the problem found. Furthemore, in implementing the action, the researcher taught the students by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). Next, observing was the process of collecting the data from the implementation, the researcher and collaborator observed all of the classroom activities during the implementation of the action. The last was reflecting, in this process the researcher and collaborator analyzed the data from observing the action and compared with the criteria of succes which 80% of students have to reach the target score that was 75. The subject of this research was the class VIII F of SMP Nurul Islam Jember that consisted of thirty-two students. The result of this research showed that there was improvement of the students reading comprehensionl. It could be seen from the result of the post-test I and II that been improved. From 47,75 % students who achieved the minimum score in pre-test become 62,50% in post-test I then 84,37% in post-test II. It can be conclouded that Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) can make students‟ reading comprehension better then before.

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