THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC READING (CSR) IN TEACHING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION FOR SECOND GRADER MTs MA’ARIF NU KOTA BLITAR

Manasikana, Arina. Student Registered Number 17203163072. 2020. The Effectiveness of Using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in Teaching Students’ Reading Comprehension for Second Grader at MTs Ma’arif NU Kota Blitar. Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Hj. Ida Isnawati, M.Pd. Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), Recount Text. Reading is an activity of getting meaning or aims from compound words as well as a text. In reading activity is needed comprehension to determine the information in a text. Moreover, reading have some aspects to be recognized by students, starting from text structures, text purposes, difficult words, main idea, and English features. The teacher should have a good learning strategy to teach reading especially for reading comprehension. Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is one of technique to teach reading comprehension. It is consisted of some strategies; Preview, Click and Clunk, Get the Gist, and Wrap up. Collaborative Strategic Reading tries to comprehend a text in cooperatively and required students to be active and builds their interactions among the students.The problem of this research is “Is there any significant difference in the achievement of students in reading comprehension taught with and without the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) for second graders at MTs Ma’arif NU Kota Blitar?” It purposes to know the significant difference and to see the effectiveness of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in teaching-reading comprehension for second graders at MTs Ma’arif NU Kota Blitar. This research used quasi-experimental research design. The population of this research is all of second grade students at MTs Ma’arif NU Kota Blitar which have 185 students. The research samples were 8G class (24 students) as the experimental class and 8F class (25 students) as the control class. The total samples were 49 students. In experimental class was given CSR method and the control class was given lecture method to teach students’ reading comprehension. There were four meetings for each class including pre-test and post-test. The researcher analyze the data used IBM SPSS 22.0 version for Windows. Based on the pre-test’s mean score of two classes, it indicates the samples were not equal in their ability. The normality test with N-Gain score showed the data was not distributed normally. So, the researcher used N-Gain score to determine the hypothesis using Mann-Whitney U-test. The result of this research showed the output of u-test has the significance value 0.1585. It was indicated that ρ-value was higher than significance level ɑ = 0.05 (0.1585>0.05). In consequence, the result was rejecting the alternative hypothesis (H1) and accepting the null hypothesis (H0). It means, there was no significant difference in the achievement of students in reading comprehension taught with and without the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) for second graders at MTs Ma’arif NU Kota Blitar.