The use of collaborative strategic reading to improve students’ reading comprehension.

Abstract

The objectives of this research was to find out whether there was a statistically significant difference of students’ reading comprehension ability of narrative texts after the students were taught through CSR strategy and also to find out which aspect of reading comprehension improves the most after CSR was implemented in teaching reading at the tenth grade of SMKN 1 Terbanggi Besar . This research was a quantitative research and the method was one group pre-test and post-test design. In pre-test students mean score was 52.17 while in post-test it increase to 76.15; the gain obtained in pre-test to post-test was 23.98. The subjects of the research were 26 students at the tenth grade of SMKN 1 Terbanggi Besar . The reading comprehension test was used as the research instrument. The data were analyzed using paired sample t-test. The result showed that there was a statistically significant difference of students’ reading comprehension of narrative texts. Determining main idea was the aspect that improved the most after implementing Collaborative Strategic Reading technique.