Author (Penulis)

BAYU DWI SEPTYONO
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0234

Abstract

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE STRATEGIES AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016 BAYU DWI SEPTYONO 11.1.01.08.0234 FKIP – BAHASA INGGRIS bayudseptyono@gmail.com Drs. AGUNG WICAKSONO, M.Pd. and KHOIRIYAH, M.Pd. UNIVERSITAS NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI ABSTRACT In university, reading stands as one of the important skills that has to be mastered. Therefore, in reading a text a second language learner has difficulty in determining topic of the text, catching main idea, understanding the meaning, finding the general and specific information of the text. They must have learning strategy, especially cognitive strategy to make them easier and faster. But most of them do not realize what learning strategies they are used in the learning process of reading. Based on the problem, the purposes of the study is to measure the degree of the correlation between cognitive strategies and students’ reading comprehension in the second year students. The research design applied in this research is quantitative and the approach of this research is correlation quantitative research. The sample of this research is the second year students University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri that consisting 75 students. To get the data, the researcher used two instruments. They are questionnaire and reading test. Based on the result of this research, it shows that the students in University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri sometime use cognitive strategies. Besides, the result also shows that the students’ reading comprehension in University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri is very good. From the statements, it can be concluded that the use of cognitive strategies influence the reading comprehension of the second years students in University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri. It is also supported by the result of the data analysis in this research that the score of rxy is higher than rxy–table in significant 1% and 5%. In other words, there is any significant correlation between students’ cognitive strategy and students’ reading comprehension. According to the result of this research, it can be concluded that the use of cognitive strategies influence their reading comprehension. From that statement, the writer suggests the students to apply the cognitive strategies to increase their English skill, especially reading. The writer also suggests the teacher to help the students in applying compensation strategies. Hopefully, this research can help the English lecturer to teach the students how to use the cognitive strategies in reading. Key words: Correlation, Cognitive Strategies and Reading Comprehension

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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