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AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGIES IN REA DING COMPREHENSION OF ENGLISH TEXT

(A descriptive study of the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto in the academic year of 2012/2013)

A THESIS

Submitted to English Department as the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of S.Pd Degree

By:

SRI WARYANTI 0901050100

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO

2013

An Analysis Of Students..., Sri Waryanti, FKIP UMP, 2013

MOTTOMOTTOMOTTOMOTTO

Verily, with the hardship, there is relief.

(Al-Inshirah:6)

Never say never because as long as you are alive

everything is still possible.


DEDICATION

This thesis is heartily dedicated to:

ALLAH SWT who always gives me so many blesses and mercies.

The holiest person in the world, Prophet MUHAMMAD PBUH, who

always gives me many powers through His beautiful words.

The real super heroes in my life, namely: my beloved “MOTHER”,

my beloved “MOTHER”, my beloved “MOTHER” and my beloved

“FATHER”. I LOVE U SO MUCH, I’ll always make you smile.

My grandmother, my late Grandfather, My beloved sisters (mba’ Su

& mba’ Wati), my lovely brothers-in-law (mas Sarbi & mas Aris), my

lovely nieces and nephew (Nurul, Angel & Rifqi), and all members of

my big family. You are my big spirit to finish this thesis.

The inspiring woman ever, (Mrs. Aurelia Anny) who always gives me

spirit, motivation and million helps.

Great people I found during I lived in Jakarta: Popo, Nasya M. Diah,

Mr. Reza H. Diah, Mr. Hari Diah and his big family who always

become the inspiration for me to be success people.

All my lecturers in English Department, thank you for teaching me

English, you are SUPER!

“Street Fighter Ace” (Milla, Ayu, Hilda, Eka, Isna) & my super

friends (Desi, Diah, Alfian, Asfi, Athree, anisa kost girls). Thanks for

giving me many stories, experiences and spirit. You are rock!! I love U

all. ^_^


PREFACE

The writer would like to express her sincere thanks to the Mighty

Allah SWT, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful. All praises to be Allah

SWT, the lord of the world who has given the writer guidance so that she can

accomplish her research. This research is a part of the research of Hibah Bersaing

entitled: Pengembangan Model Pembelajaran Reading Interaktif Berbasis

Pemahaman.

In accomplishing this research, the writer feels indebted to many people

for their support, guidance, assistance, and help. Therefore, the writer would like

to express her special gratitude to:

1. Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd., the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty

of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, who has given permission

for the writer to do this research;

2. Drs. H. Pudiyono, M.Hum., the Head of English Department and also as

the first consultant who gave the opportunity and agreement to carry out

this research and also gave guidance, suggestion and many new

knowledge;

3. Listiyani, S.Pd, M.Pd., the second consultant who never felt tired to

correct the manuscript of this thesis and guide the writer in finishing this

thesis;


4. Drs. Prijatno Edi Purwanto, M.Pd., the principal of SMA Negeri 5

Purwokerto for his permission so that the writer could run the research

there;

5. English teachers of SMA N 5 Purwokerto: Drs. Endro Prasetyo Wibowo,

Ishartati, S.Pd, Moh. Sobari, S.pd, and Sri Djantaju, S.Pd who helped the

writer so much in collecting the data of this research;

6. All of the second grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Purwokerto for their

help.

Finally, the writer thanks to all people who has given their support and

affection throughout her effort in completing this thesis. The writer hopes

that this work can give valuable contributions to all readers.

Purwokerto, August 2013

The Writer


TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER .......……......................................................................................... ....... i

APPROVAL ........………….………………………………………………...... ii

MOTTO .........................................................................................................… iii

DEDICATION ...............………………………….…………........................... iv

PREFACE ...........................…………………………………………………… v

TABLE OF CONTENT.....…………………………………………………... vii

LISTS OF TABLES ………………………………………………………....... x

LISTS OF APPENDICES ................................................................................. xi

ABSTRACT …................................................................................................... xii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the study …………………......……...………… 1

B. Reason for choosing topic …………….....……………………. 4

C. Problem of the study ....…………………..............…................ 4

D. Aim of the study ……………………................……………… 5

E. Clarification of term……………………………………...…… 5

F. Contribution of the study……………………………............... 6

CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW

A. Learning Strategy

1. The definition of learning strategy ……………………..… 7

2. The importance of learning strategies in learning language.. 8

3. The system of learning strategies.......................................... 9


B. Reading

1. The definition of reading....................................................... 10

2. The importance of reading for the students........................... 11

3. Reading comprehension........................................................ 11

4. Reading comprehension aspects............................................ 12

5. The important of learning strategy in reading

comprehension........................................................................... 13

C. the focus of learning strategy in this research............................ 15

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Research Method ..............…...………………………………. 19

B. Subject of the Research

1. Population ..................................………………...………… 19

2. Sample .........................…………………………...……….. 20

3. Sampling Technique...……….…………………..………… 20

C. Time and Place of Research ….……………………...……….. 21

D. Technique of Collecting Data ….……………………...……… 21

E. Technique of Analyzing Data ……………………...………… 22

CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION

A. Research Result ...................................................................... 24

B. Discussion................................................................................ 34


CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion………………………………………...………….. 38

B. Suggestion………………………………………...…………... 38

REFERENCES……………………………………………………………….. 40

APPENDIXES


L IST OF TABLES

1. Reading Comprehension Aspects.......................................................... 13

2. Aspects of questionnaire........................................................................ 21

3. Description of items in memory strategy............................................... 26

4. Description of items in cognitive strategy.............................................. 27

5. Description of items in compensatory strategy...................................... 29

6. Description of items in metacognitive strategy....................................... 30

7. Description of items in affective strategy............................................... 31

8. Description of items in social strategy.................................................... 33


LIST OF APPENDIXES

1. The sample of the research

2. Students questionnaire

3. The result of the questionnaire

4. The computation result of the questionnaire

5. Questionnaire

6. Permission letters


ABSTRACT

AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGY IN READING COMPREHENSION OF ENGLISH TEXT (A descriptive study of the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto in the academic year

2012/2013)

Sri Waryanti

(0901050100)

The aims of this research were to describe what learning strategies used by the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto and to find out the dominant learning strategy used by the students in comprehending English text.

The kind of this research was survey research. The population of the research was the second grade students of SMA N 5 Purwokerto in the academic year 2012/2013 who were consisted of 316 students. The sample of this research was 120 students or 40% of the population amount. The sampling technique that used was random sampling. Questionnaire was used to collect the data of this research.

The result of this research showed that 77.25% of learning strategy which used by the students in reading comprehension of English text was social strategy. The two more learning strategies that were often used by the students were affective strategy (75.70%) and compensatory strategy (67.00%). The three more learning strategies; namely: cognitive strategy (60.83), metacognitive (60.66%), and memory strategy (58.37%) were seldom used by the students to help them comprehend English text.

Key words: learning strategy, reading comprehension


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