The Effect of Implementing Smart Strategy on Teaching Reading at Junior High School Students in The Academic Year 2023/2024

Ulum, Bahrul (2023) The Effect of Implementing Smart Strategy on Teaching Reading at Junior High School Students in The Academic Year 2023/2024. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: SMART (Self-Monitoring Approach Reading and Thinking), Reading Skill.
Reading is the ability to construct text meaning which used by the reader with the knowledge and language interpretation. Reading is needed by students in order they can refine their thinking both in and outside classroom, also guessing the meaning of unfamiliar items in the reading text. However, the students of Islamic junior high school had low reading proficiency as they had lack of ability to share ideas from the reading text. Therefore, this research examines the utilization of SMART (Self-Monitoring Approach Reading and Thinking) strategy as one of the teaching method to enhance students’ reading skill.
This research address three research questions, namely; (1) How did the teacher implement SMART strategy on teaching reading at junior high school students?. (2) What was the effect of SMART strategy on teaching reading at junior high school students?. (3) How did teachers used SMART to evaluate teaching reading at junior high school students?. However, this research address three research objectives, namely; (1) To examine the implementation of SMART affects teaching reading at junior high school students. (2) To find the effect of SMART on teaching reading at junior high school students. (3) To examine the process of teaching reading evaluation by using SMART at junior high school students.
This research method was Quantitative Research by employing a Quasi-Experimental Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The research was conducted with two groups, namely experimental group (24 students) and control group (24 students). Before conducting the research, the researcher conducted inter-rater reliability test to find that the instrument was reliable or not. There were three steps in this research, namely; pre-test, treatment, and post-test. However, after the treatment, the researcher gave post- test for both groups. When the pre-test and post-test scores were collected, the researcher then analyzed the normality test, homogeneity test, and independent sample t-test by using IBM SPSS Version 20.
The result showed that the mean of pre-test in experimental class was 44,21 and the mean of post-test in experimental class was 76,21 (76,21>44,21). While, the mean of pre-test in control class was 41,88 and the mean of post-test in control class was 57,29 (57,29>41,88). So, the mean of post-test in experimental group was higher than control group. Moreover, hypothesis testing showed that significant 2 tailed was (0.000 < 0.05) means that Ho (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. So, it concluded that SMART strategy gave significant effect on students' reading skill at Al-Ishlah Islamic Junior High School in the academic year 2023/2024.

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