THE USE OF COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC READING TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE TWELFTH GRADER STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 2 TARAKAN
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Collaborative Strategic Reading can improve reading comprehension of twelfth grade students of SMKN 2 Tarakan. The study was carried out using a pre-experimental research method. It tried to find out the differences in reading comprehension before and after being taught using the Collaborative Strategic Reading. The subjects of this study were students of class XII TKJ 1 consisting of 21 students at SMKN 2 Tarakan. The instrument was written test with questions about reading comprehension in the pretest and posttest to measure student achievement in the learning process during treatments. The result of this study showed that there was a difference between the pretest and posttest. This was indicated by the mean score in the posttest (68,38) was higher than in the pretest (55,62), meaning that there was a significant difference in the achievement of the students’ reading comprehension between the pretest and posttest. The test results of the paired sample test showed that the t-test value (4,638) was greater than the critical t value (2,086). So it could be concluded that collaborative strategic reading was proven to be an affective strategy to improve reading comprehension of the twelve grade students of SMKN 2 Tarakan.