b. The students: the implementation of CSR may help students to increase their reading
comprehension achievement by forcing them to activate their prior knowledge and work cooperatively.
c. The school: Hopefully, the results of the research can be used as the consideration policy
related to the development of teaching reading English.
1.7 Scope of the Research
This research was focused on Collaborative Strategic Reading CSR technique that was used as a technique to help students increase their reading comprehension achievement. The
researcher conducted this research in the first grade of SMAN 1 Tulang Bawang Tengah, Tulang Bawang Barat. The sample was selected using simple random sampling since the first
grade students in SMAN 1 Tulang Bawang Tengah were not stratified class. Pretest-posttest items were employed to obtain the data that were analyzed to find out whether there was a
significant increase of students’ reading comprehension achievement after being given three times treatments. The researcher limited reading comprehension in this research only on the
students’ ability in finding out main idea, stated and unstated detail information, reference, inference and understanding vocabulary in the text. The researcher focused on news item
text because this text was being learnt by the students and it was not allowed to use another text beside the material which was being taught when the researcher conducted this research.
The materials are taken from English Book based on the School Based Curriculum KTSP of SMA and some articles in The Jakarta Post.
1.8 Definition of Terms
In this research, the writer used some definition of term as stated below: 1.
Reading is the meaningful interpretation of printed or written symbol Nuttal, 1982. 2.
Collaborative Strategic Reading CSR is a collaborative technique that teaches students to use comprehension strategies while working cooperatively. Student
strategies include previewing the text; giving ongoing feedback by deciding click I get it or clunk I dont get it at the end of each paragraph; getting the gist of the
most important parts of the text; and wrapping up key ideas.
Klingner Vaughn, 1998
. 3.
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
III. RESEARCH METHOD
The researcher compared between the students’ reading comprehension achievement in the pretest and the students’ reading comprehension achievement in the posttest after being
taught through Collaborative Strategic Reading technique. To answer the research questions, there are seven topics which need to be elaborated here. They are: Research Design, Setting,
