Ratnasari, Neti Dwi (2017) Using Think-Aloud Strategy to Improve The Students’ Reading Comprehension at The Eighth Grade of Mts N 1 Lampung Timur in Academic Year 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the students’ reading comprehension of MTs 1 Lampung Timur and to know what extend the Think-Aloud Strategy could help the students’ learning process.The writer tries to attest that Think-Aloud strategy can be one of the teaching strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension.The researcher had outlined the problem in this research that focused on reading comprehension. It is related on the problem identification that the students do not understand about the passageand they do not interest in reading material.In this research, the researcher conducts classroom action research (CAR) which is done in two cycles. Each cycle consist of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subjects of this research is 32 students in VIII class of MTs N 1 Lampung Timur In collecting data, the researcher used test (pre-test, post test 1 and post test 2), observation and documentation. The research is conducted collaboratively with an English teacher of MTs N 1 Lampung Timur.

The result of this research shows that Think-Aloud strtaegy can be used as a teaching strategy of reading. It provided by the average mark result of pre-test and post-test show that there were improved mark. At post test I is 61 and post test II is 73 it improved 12 point.The researcher concluded that there was significant improvement of using Think-Aloud Strateg on the reding comprehensions at eighth grade of MTs N 1 Lampung Timur.

(Keyword :Reading Comprehension, Think-aloud strategy, Classroom action research)

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