THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SMART (SELF-MONITORINGAPPROACH TO READING AND THINKING) STRATEGY ONSTUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT THEFIRST GRADE OF MTs MA’ARIF BAKUNG UDANAWU BLITAR IN THEACADEMIC YEAR 2019

ABSTRACTZahro, Fatimatul. Student Registered Number. 17203153132. ‘’The Effect ofUsing Smart (Self-Monitoring Approach to Reading And Thinking)Strategy on Student’s Reading Comprehension Achievement at The FirstGrade of Mts Ma’arif Bakung Udanawu Blitar in The Academic Year2018/2019.’’ Sarjana thesis. English Education Departement. FacultyTarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute(IAIN) ofTulungagung. Advisor : Nanik Sri Rahayu, M.Pd.Keywords : Effectiveness, Smart( self-monitoring approach to readingand thinking), reading comprehensionThere are many problem found in teaching English for junior high schoollevel of MTs Ma’arif bakung udanawu Blitar. Especially, in teaching readingcomprehension really needed solution. In this case, the teacher was expected tofind a good strategy to improve the students' ability in reading comprehension byapplying self-monitoring approach to reading and thinking (SMART) strategy as areplacement of previous strategy. Reading is considered as an important aspectfor students because of its valuable benefit in developing knowledge. There aremany strategies which is can used by the teacher to help the students masteringthe reading comprehension. Such as SMART (self-monitoring approach toreading and thinking) strategy.The purpose to know ‘’ is there any significant difference achievement onstudents reading comprehension before and after being taught by using SMART(self-monitoring approach to reading and thinking) strategy at the first grade ofMTs Ma’arif Bakung Udanawu Blitar?Subject of this study is the first grade students at MTs Ma’arif BakungUdanawu Blitar in academic year 2019. The researcher chooses VII F class whichconsist 40 students based on the result of pleminary observation over there. Thisresearch was used quantitative approach with pre-experimental research designwith on group pretest and posttest. It is intended to find out any significantdifference on students reading achievement before and after taught using SMARTstrategy. The data of this research is students score in pre-test and post-test, and toanalisys that data the researcher using spss 24.0 for window program.The result of study showed that the mean of students score of pre-testbefore they are taught being using SMART strategy to increse readingcomprehension was (56,13) while the mean of students score after taught beingusing SMART strategy was (77,25). The significance value is 0.00 and thesignificance level is 0.05. It means that the significance value is smaller thansignificance level (0.00 < 0.05). So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is acceptedand null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is acceptedand the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected which states that there was anysignificant different in using SMART strategy to increase reading comprehensionat the first grade of Mts Ma’arif Bakung Udanawu Blitar is rejected. In other wordSMART strategy to increase reading comprehension can be used as an alternativestrategy to icrease students reading comprehension at junior high school,especially for VII grade.