Muslimah, Nur Intan (2014) The Use of Cooperative Learning Method to Increase Reading Comprehension Ability at The Tenth Graders of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Metro in The Academic Year of 2013/2014. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Reading is one of the abilities which must be mastered by the students inlearning English. The students who have the ability in English language must be ableto identify the text faster. The students also were in the difficulty in identifying reading text effeciently. This was caused by the students in ability to associatemethod in reading texts well. Therefore, the researcher used the right to methodovercome the weakness. The researcher tried to implement the cooperative learningmethod to make the students easier in understanding and indentifying the text fasterand more effeciently.

The purpose of this research was to implement the cooperative learning andusing the method in the student comprehending reading texts at the tenth graders ofSMA Muhammadiyah 1 Metro. In this research the researcher gave pretest to knowthe students’ ability in understanding reading texts and post test to know the result ofthe students’s ability in reading text after giving the cooperative learning.

This research is classroom action research design, where the people who wantusing this research must be seeing processing of teaching and learning directly, thentaking the conclusion of the research was done. The classroom action research wasconducted by 2 cycles. There are four steps in each cycle; they are planning, acting,observing and reflecting. The researcher gave one pre test before treatment, twotreatments, and one post test. The subjects of this action research are the tenth gradersof SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Metro in the Academic Year of 2013/2014.

Based on the research that was done, there is the researcher known that byusing cooperative learning as method of teaching reading comprehension can increasetheir ability. In fact, it can be seen from their average score in pre-test 69.3become83,7in post-test. It means that the students could achieve the target; the target was85% students gained score 60 or more.

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