Rengganis, Farrah Desheila (2012) Improving The Reading Comprehension Using A Small Group Cooperative Learning Strategy in Second Grade Students at SMPN 1 Murung Pudak Academic Year 2011/2012. Skripsi, Tarbiyan dan Keguruan.

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Farrah Desheila Rengganis. 2012. Improving The Reading Comprehension Using A Small Group Cooperative Learning Strategy in Second Grade Students at SMPN 1 Murung Pudak Academic Year 2011/2012. Thesis, English Department, Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisor: (1) Dra. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M. Pd, (2) Raida Asfihana, M. Pd This research is aims to know whether small group cooperative learning strategy could increase students’reading comprehension in Second Grade Students at SMPN 1 Murung Pudak Academic Year 2011/2012. The statements of the problems in this research are: How is the students’ ability/mastering in reading comprehension and does teaching using small group cooperative learning strategy improve or increase the students’ abilities in reading comprehension in second grade students of SMPN 1 Murung Pudak academic year 2011 / 2012?. The subject of the research is English teacher as a researcher, 22 students of VIII C at SMPN 1 Murung Pudak academic year 2011/2012. The research conducted by the writer in this study is a Classroom Action Research.The object of this classroom action research is teacher’s teaching strategy that are used in the class on the learning process. There are some data needed to fulfill this research. In getting those data, researcher also uses some technique of data collection; documentation, observation, and test. In this classroom action research, the researcher collected the data using qualitative and quantitative method. The result of this study showed that cooperative learning using a small group could increase the students’ comprehension in reading because the members of the groups were led to solve the problem together. They were able to help one another in understanding the content of the text and find solution of the problems. Cooperative learning using a small group also increased the students’ participation in class discussion as well as their ability in reading comprehension. It had been proved the cooperative learning using a small group forced every member of the group to participate. In conclusion, it is shown that a small group could increase the students’ achievement in a reading comprehension in spite of their low motivation and little interest in learning English and could increase students’ participation. It had been proved that the students’ more active made them directly involved in the process of comprehending a text, which also increased their reading achievement.

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