IMPROVING STUDENTS' ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION BY USING COOPERATIVE LEARNING (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN KEMBANG TANJONG) | ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATION

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IMPROVING STUDENTS' ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION BY USING COOPERATIVE LEARNING (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE SECOND GRADE OF MTSN KEMBANG TANJONG)


Pengarang

Kamarullah - Personal Name;

Dosen Pembimbing



Nomor Pokok Mahasiswa

0809200080021

Fakultas & Prodi

Fakultas KIP / Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (S2) / PDDIKTI : 88103

Subject
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Kata Kunci
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Penerbit

Banda Aceh : Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris., 2011

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Key words : Cooperative Learning. and Reading Comprehension

Reading is one of the four skills of English that must be learned by the learners at junior high schools. Reading Comprehension employed in this study is the students' ability in comprehension such kinds of text report, recount, description, and procedure which includes word meaning. word reference, main idea. and specific
information sub-skill based on the syllabus of junior high schools. These skills were difficult to teach at junior high school especially at MTsN Kembang Tanjong. Since students did not have enough time to practice reading comprehension, they find it difficult, consequently not all students have time to express with language, This study is intended to know why the students' unable to (I Identify word meaning, (2) Identify word reference, t) Find out main ideas, and (4) Get specific information in the paragraph or text.

In this study the researcher wants to know whether : (I) The students who are taught reading comprehension by cooperative learning give better result than those who are taught by teacher centre method, (2) the students identified easily reading sub-skills by using cooperative learning compared to teacher-center method, t) the students have good responses toward the implementation of cooperative learning in teaching reading skills with heterogeneous students

The subjects of this study were the students of class llA as an experiment group and the class l e a s a control class group. The instruments used to collect the data were tests and questionnaires. Therefore, the population of this study was 20 and the sample was l students, at class IL of MTsN Kembang Tanjong

The findings of the research proved that the application of cooperative learning is able to increase the students' achievements in reading comprehension [f can be proved by presenting the statistical count. The mean score of applying cooperative learning is 0 on pre-test and post-test of experimental group. The mean scone of pre-test and post-test of control group is 0,04. While the mean score of comparing the two groups is -0,0 on pre-test, and comparing the two mean score of post-test is 0.04

Furthermore. the result increases only in certain sub-skills for post-test, such as specific information and main idea which has good improvement. Word reference and word meaning are very difficult for them to identify for experimental group. On the other, hand for control group, the highest score on post-test is word reference, the

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