AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGIES IN READING 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
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!
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
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2. The importance of learning strategies in learning language.. 8
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.Subjectof 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
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A.Conclusion………...………….. 38
B.Suggestion………...…………... 38
LIST 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
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
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.
