The Application Of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) To Improve Students Reading Comprehension In Narative Text Of The Second Year Students At SMPN 3 Pekanbaru

Abstract

This classroom action research was aimed to study the improvement on reading compehension in narative text of the second year students at SMPN 3 Pekanbaru by implementing the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). The writer took one class as participants of the study. They were 40 students in class VIII4 of SMPN 3 Pekanbaru. The study was conducted in two cycles which each had 3 meetings. After three meetings, the writer had given a test which was done to know the students’ reading comprehension. The writer continued the action to the second cycle, because the result of the first one was not successful yet. The post test 2 was given to the students in order to know the improvement in students’ reading comprehension in narative text after Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). The data were analyzed by comparing the result of post test 1 and post test 2 and the minimum criteria of successful action (75). The average score of the first cycle was (68,6), it means that the average score of first cycle was still below the minimum criteria of successful action (75) and below the average score of second cycle (79,7). It can be said that the result of research in post test 2 was succesful because it was over than the minimum criteria of succesful. Moreover, the students’s activeness during the teaching and learning process also improved cycle by cycle. Finally, the writer got the conclusion that the use of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) gave positive contributions and better outcomes to improve students reading comprehension in narative text and made the students challenge to be involved in a discussion actively.