Increasing students’ Ability in Identifying Information of Reading text Through Collaboration Learning

Abstract

Reading Ability is the understanding of the written word, the comprehension of the content being read, and the construction of textual meanings. The study's objective is to determine whether or not students' reading comprehension can be improved after being taugh by collaborative learning strategy. The research design for this study is classroom action research. The data were taken from students reading test on descriptive text, observation, documentation, and questionnaire sheet. The population for this study was all of the students in the twelve grade at SMA Swasta HKBP Sidorame Medan, which had two classes with a same number of students in each. In the seventh grade, there are 30 students at SMA Swasta HKBP Sidorame Medan. The writer take samples of both class were consist of 30 students. The data shows that, there are still many students on grade twelve who are difficult in reading ability. The data in this study was compiled from both qualitative and quantitative sources. The observation sheets, documentation, and questionnaire sheet were used to collect the qualitative data. The quantitative data came from the pre-test, cycle I, and cycle II is reading comprehension tests.The total scores of students in each test are as follows: in the pre-test 64,53, in the post-test cycle I 83,41, and in the post-test cycle II 96,6. Based on students' scores in each test, the writer found that the average score of students in each cycle increased from 59%, 68.8%, to 80.4%. After using collaborative learning in teaching reading ability the writer found that the student’s mean score in post-test II is above KKM. It means that the application of the collaborative learning strategy can indeed help deal with problems and increase students' reading ability scores.