ZULHAROZA, VARADIBAH
(2022)
IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH COGNITIVE STRATEGY AT STUDENTS GRADE VIII.
[Undergraduate Thesis]
Abstract
This research was conducted to find out whether cognitive strategy can improve
students in grade 8 junior high school in Surabaya and explain how the description
of the implementation of the strategy in the classroom. This study uses a classroom
action research design (PTK). Grade 8 students with reading skills had good results
and improved their reading competence after applying the cognitive strategy as a
method of learning English in the classroom. The results of the study, it was shown
in cycle 1 that the score increased from 66 to 73. But these results are not enough
to pass the criteria. So as the writer and English teacher agreed to continue cycle 2.
In cycle 2 by improving the strategy by grouping students, the author examined in
class that the value increased from 73 to 76 but the value is still not enough to pass
the desired value criteria. So we continue to cycle 3, in cycle 3 the author displays
a power point that contains the material to be discussed. Then the writer asked the
students to describe their classmate. And their scores increased from 76 to 79. And
in cycle 3 students passed the criteria.
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