From the explanation above, it can be conclude that metacognitive startegies can help students. Awareness of students to understand the issues. A cognitive process to
understand and do something. Learn the unknown. The strategy is to force the students to figure out the problem and then make a plan or a way to resolve the
problem. but on the metacognitive strategies consists of think aloud strategy, Questioning Strategy and Self regulating strategy.
Based on those examples, The reasercher chose think aloud strategy as the strategy used for this study
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One of the most effective ways to teach metacognitive strategies is the think-aloud strategy. This involves a teacher talking the class through her thinking as
she tackles a task, like a piece of text with new vocabulary or a new math concept.
G. Concept Of Think aloud
According to Haris and Hodges, Think-aloud is a metacognitive technique or strategy in which a teacher verbalizes thoughts aloud while reading a selection orally, thus
modeling the process of comprehension
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. It means that strategy think aloud prompts the user to speak his reading aloud so that it can be heard by others. It can make a
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Harris, T.L., Hodges, R.E. 1995.
The literacy dictionary: The vocabula ry of reading and writing.
Newark DE: International Reading Association, 1995, p. 256. In Cathy Collins block susan e. israel,
The Abcs of Performing Highly Effective Think-Alouds:
The Reading Teacher, vol. 58, no. 2 oct., 2004, p.154.
reading comprehension will be easier to understand and with a better understanding of the contents of the reading, students will be able to predict or solve problems.
According to Bainbridge and Pantaleo, although think aloud strategy has generally been employed as a technique to improve the comprehension of poor readers, think
aloud also demonstrate the active role of readers in the reading process.
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It means that the strategy think aloud students are invited to participate actively in the process
of reading. Students read aloud and then thinking earnestly to understand a passage so that they are able to resolve the issue or question on the reading.
According to Amelia Et.al, Think aloud is one strategy that included the metacognitive strategies.
Strategy think aloud, the teacher asks the students to say what they think and resolve any given problem.
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It means that think aloud is an example of metacognitive strategy, the metacognitive strategic refers to the thinking
of students in learning. With the metacognitive strategies, students can design what will be learned, monitor the progress of learning outcomes, and assess what has been
learned. think aloud strategy asks students to say what is thought by them after embaca a text, as well as to solve problems of thought.
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Bainbridge, Joyce and Silvia Pantaleo.
Learning with Literature in the Canada: Elementary Classroom
, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1999 p. 162. In Hunaina ,”
Teaching Reading Comprehension By Combining Think Aloud Strategy And Read, Encode, Annotate, And Ponder Rea p
Strategy At Junior High School
”Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat, P.5.
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Abdul Muin and Siska Amelia,
strategi think aloud dalam meningkatkan Kemampuan pemecahan masalah matematis siswa
Jakarta: UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Press,2013 p. 42.
According to explanation above, the researcher concluded think aloud is an example of metacognitive strategy, the metacognitive strategic refers to the thinking of
students in learning. Think aloud strategy is a strategy that helps students to understand the reading. On this strategy students will be asked to say what they think
so that teachers can control students reading comprehension abilities increase. This strategy is also asking the students to play an active role in the process of reading, so
that students will use thinking skills and students will try to understand the text and solve problems.
H. Procedure of Think Aloud Strategy
Think aloud strategy is a strategy that can be used by teacher as a model for students in reading a text. According to Booth the procedure of using think aloud strategy in
teaching reading involves the following steps: 1.
Before teacher asks students to think aloud, teacher has to establish a climate of trust.
2. Once such an environment is established, teacher can begin to ask students to
tell what their thinking. A natural time to ask is when teacher see a student‟s stumble while reading.
3. When listening to the student describes his or her thought processes, teacher
needs to refrain from asking leading questions for students. 4.
When students have finished describing their thinking process, teacher can discuss how this particular strategy helps them to problem solve.
