Formulation of Research Questions

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2. Think aloud

Think aloud is a strategy of reading process for improving reading comprehension of second language students by articulating all that they are noticing, thinking, feeling, and doing as they read a text.

3. Collaborative Discussion

Collaborative discussion is based on the idea that students who work collaboratively with a common aim learn better than students who work individually.

4. Students’ Perception

Students’ perception is the students’ asumption about certain objects which is obtained through senses then it is organized, interpreted and evaluated. 12

II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

In this chapter, the researcher explains two major important parts, which deal with review of previous related research and review of related literature. To support this research, the researcher provides explanation about the literature review which are related to this research such as review of literature that deals with concept of reading comprehension, the concept of think aloud, collaborative learning, procedure of teaching reading through think aloud strategy, the procedures of collaborative think aloud strategy on reading comprehension, collaborative think aloud strategy, theoretical assumption, and hyphotesis.

2.1 Review of Previous Research

In order to gain a clear perspective towards this research, it is necessary to review findings of previous related researches on, primarily, reading comprehension achievement, and aspects which might correlate with it. There have been a lot of research on think aloud strategy on reading comprehension that conducted both in EFL and ESL settings. The first is the research conducted by Khatami, et.al., 2014. This research is to investigate the effect of think aloud strategy on improving reading comprehension ability among Iranian English foreign language EFL university students in bachelor level. The required data were obtained from 80 students male and female. A questionnaire based on Sukyadi and Uswatun 2000 questionnaire, was