The Strategy and Achievement in Reading Comprehension Of The Second Graders of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Babat

Abstract

From the last-three-year document of national exam of English
which emphasizes more reading comprehension, it can be known that
some students scored high, some others scored low. The difference in
achieving such a score may be influenced by the strategy use in reading.
To know comprehensively reading strategy use and the reading
comprehension achievement, this study aimed to find out: the reading
strategies used by the high achieving students and the low achieving
students, the most frequently used strategy by the students, and whether
there is significant correlation between reading strategy and the reading
comprehension achievement
This non experimental study involves 56 second graders of the
exact sciences program of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Babat. Reading
comprehension test and Survey of Reading Strategy (SORS) were used to
collect the data. Data analyzing used tally and Pearson product moment.
The findings are, the high achieving students used more reading
strategies than low achieving students; the most frequently used strategy
by among groups is problem solving, global, and support strategy; there
is significant correlation between reading strategy and reading
comprehension achievement by high achieving students and low
achieving students. It means the better reading strategy used, the better
reading achievement wil be and vice versa

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