Improving the Students Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) at the Second Grade of SMP
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
In
English teaching learning,
students should master four language skills. The language
skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing. As a language
skill, reading has
significant role that
influence the other
language skills and components.
In addition, the
success of learning
any subject matters depends
on the competence
of reading comprehension
since it functions as a major
tool for finding and understanding information. Reading also has the value to
help students learn to express their own thought and to make them
familiar with the
language pattern and
ways of using
language efficiently. Thus, mastering reading skill is very important.
Rebecca
(2005: 8) Reading is fundamentally important for success. It opens the door to
personal freedom or shuts the door to opportunity. Learning to read is a means
to an end. If children have difficulty learning to read early, how can they be
expected to excel in other subjects as well? The best prevention of reading
difficulties, therefore, is early intervention strategies at the preschool/kindergarten
level. Instead of heated debates on which approach is best suited for early
reading success, educators should be discussing the most efficient method(s)
that produces the best results.
In reading class, we may
face some difficulties, such as: difficult to get the meaning of words, to get
information and to make conclusion of the passage. All
of these problems
will affect the
learners to comprehend
the passage and reading
achievement. Therefore, those
students need strategies or techniques in order to overcome
the problem.
There are many
kinds of texts
that can be
used as narrative, descriptive, explanation,
expository, recount, report, exposition,
discussion, procedure, review,
narrative, anecdote, spoof, and news item. They are very useful for the teacher
to achieve the instructional goals
of teaching learning
process and they can also be interesting for the students.
The
researcher chooses the at
the second grade of SMP . This choice
is based on
some reasons. Firstly,
considering their different ability in reading comprehension. Secondly, expository
text had been taught in first grade of senior high school students but in this
level again that expository text will
be taught as
an intensification of
the process of learning, especially in reading genres
that states in the curriculum.
Considering the reason above, the researcher choose the Collaborative
Strategic Reading (CSR). Bremer et. al (2002: 1) Collaborative Strategic
Reading (CSR) is a reading
comprehension practice that combines two instructional elements: modified
reciprocal teaching and cooperative learning or student pairing. In reciprocal
teaching, teachers and students take turns leading a dialogue concerning key features
of text through summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. Reciprocal
teaching was developed with the intention of aiding students having difficulty
with reading comprehension. The researcher will formulate the research
under the title “Improving the Students Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic
Reading (CSR) at the Second Grade of SMP ”.
1.2 Problem
Statement
1.2.1
How does the use of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
influence the students reading comprehension in expository text at the Second Grade of SMP?
1.2.2
What the effect of the using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
influence the students reading comprehension in expository text at the Second Grade of ?
1.3 Objective
of the Research
1.3.1
To find out the use of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
influence the students reading comprehension in expository text at
the Second Grade of SMP ?
1.3.2
To find out the effect of the using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
influence
the students reading comprehension in expository text at the Second Grade of SMP ?
1.4 Significance
the Research
1.4.1
Theoretically
Theoretically,
of the result of this study will answer the question of the statement of the
research problem. In general, students satisfaction in English in engaging the
activities related to English is very important for the learners
because it will
determine their level
of attention and intensive of effort in learning.
1.4.2
Practically
The
researcher expects to give some scientific contributions for:
a. The English teachers
This research
result is expects to improve the
English teacher‟s knowledge on the use of various techniques in teaching
English, especially reading
comprehension through Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR).
b. The students
The
students know how to using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in teaching
and learning process especially in reading comprehension.
c. The next researchers
This
research result is expects to facilities the next researcher to be a
reference in conducting further studies by using Collaborative Strategic
Reading (CSR) on other
language skills or
language components. The result
of this study
is expected to
be used as a reference
to conduct further more study in the same or other place.
d. The researcher
This experimental
research could be use
as process to improve the teaching performance both
teacher and researcher.
1.5 Scope
the Research
The
rectriction of the study is the research will be focus to improve the students’
ability in reading comprehension the contents of expository text at
the Second Grade of SMP by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR).
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