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The other thing that can influence the student’s reading skill comes from other factor besides the teaching method. It is the students’s self-esteem. Watts 2004: 8
states that self-esteem is how we think and feel about ourselves. It refers to how we think about the way we look, our abilities, our relationships with others, and our hopes
for the future. Self-esteem is the confidence we have on ourselves. Centeno. Kat, 2010 In a learning environment, it provides a platform for a learner to develop the skills to
achieve success in life. A high self-esteem in children will carry them through as they grow up. Children with such characteristic are confident, positive, independent and
happy. When they feel good about themselves, learning new skills is easy and harmonious. This characteristic is not taught. Rather, it is built up through school
activities that will help nurture it. Self-esteem is considered as one of the important affective factors because success or failure of a person depends mostly on the degree of
one’s self-esteem. Self-esteem plays the important role in reading skill. Students with high self-
esteem are likely less to feel embarrassed or afraid when they read text. Meanwhile students with low self-esteem tend to be afraid doing it.
Based on the background of the above problems, the researcher intends to conduct a research on “The Effectiveness of Collaborative Strategic Reading CSR
compared with Direct Instruction Method to teach reading viewed from students’ self- esteem An Experimental Study at the Second Grade Students of SMA Muhammadiyah
1 Ponorogo in the Academic Year of 20112012.