THE IMPACT OF ACTIVATING COGNITIVE READING STRATEGIES TO READING COMPREHENSION AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 7 KEDIRI
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RIRIS MARISAUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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14.1.01.08.0037Abstract
Readers must develop strategies in order to master the field of academic reading. Cognitive reading strategy is one of reading learning strategies that involves the students to be active readers by activating their prior knowledge with information of the text while they are reading it. This pre-experimental research was intended to find out the impact of cognitive reading strategies to the students’ reading comprehension ability to the eleventh grade students of SMAN 7 Kediri. Cognitive reading strategies applied in this research were as follows: 1) prediction phase, this asks the students to predict the content based on the title, pictures and clues by the guidance of the researcher, 2) decoding phase, this helps the students to map some unknown words to guess the meaning, 3) inferencing phase, it helps the students to guess meaning of unknown words from the context by drawing inference and get factual and detail information, 4) paraphrasing phase, this guides the students to make notes in order to summarize the important information. The results showed that cognitive reading strategies could increase students’ ability to make paraphrase, identify plot of story, find literal and inferential information. However, the result of t-test computation showed there is no impact of cognitive reading strategies to the students’ reading comprehension. It is suggested to reduce the tasks and apply this strategy in teaching reading by optimizing the application of each phases.
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