TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION USING COGNITIVE STRATEGIES

Agustin, Aini Nur Indah (2018) TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION USING COGNITIVE STRATEGIES. Jurnal Pendidikan Edutama, - (-). -. ISSN P-ISSN: 2339-2258 E-ISSN: 2548-821X (Submitted)

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Abstract The current technological developments make libraries rarely visited by students, the fact that reading is less favored by students, so their knowledge is less. And the problem faced in this case is about reading comprehension in a foreign language. This study uses cognitive strategies, in this strategy requires knowledge and understanding of students to learn English. The author chooses cognitive strategies because this strategy is considered suitable for use in English learning. The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not there is any significant difference of student’ achievement before and after the implementation of cognitive strategies in foreign language teaching to teach reading comprehension. This study used pre-experimental design with one class, namely class VIII A SMP N 1 Gayam in the academic year 2017 / 2018. The number of samples in this study was 24 students. Research data obtained from the test, namely the pre-test and post-test and research data were analyzed using paired sample t-test to determine differences in learning achievement before and after treatment using cognitive strategies. This finding shows that the use of this strategy is considered very appropriate to be applied in gaining reading comprehension. With cognitive strategies students can analyze the material being taught. Based on the results of the research that has taken place using paired t-test it is known that the value of t arithmetic is tcount is 7,743 with a probability value (sig.2 tailed) 0.001. Therefore probability (sig.2 tailed) < 0.05, then H0 is rejected meaning H1 is accepted that there is a difference in student achievement before and after treatment. The implications of this research give the alternatives to the implementation of the cognitive strategies for English classroom. Keywords: Cognitive strategies, reading, reading comprehension

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