viii ABSTRACT
NurIndraWahyu, 2017.The Use of Cognitive Strategy to Improve The Students Reading Comprehension at The Eight Grade the Students of SMPN 1 Bontonompo, Gowa.(A Pre-experimental Research).Guided by Hj.
AndiTenriAmpaandAmar Ma’ruf.
This research aimed at finding out how the cognitive strategy improve the students literal comprehension and interpretative comprehension at the Eighth Gradethe Students’ of SMPN 1 Bontonompo, Gowa.
This research used apre-experimental research. The researcher had conducted a treatment, where the class consisted of ten meetings. The population of this study is the eight grade the students of SMPN 1 Bontonompo, Gowain the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher used Total Sampling Technique. The research instrument used narrative test.
The research findings indicated that achievement of the eight grade of SMPN 1 Bontonompo, Gowawas improved after using CognitiveStrategy. It was proven by mean score of Reading Comprehension in terms of literal Comprehension in pre-test was 63.93, post-test was76.66 and the improvement ofLiteral Comprehension was 19.91%. While, the pre-test of interpretative was 49.66, post-test was 65.33 and the improvement ofInterpretative was 31.55%. The result of statistical analysis of t-test with degree of freedom, where N=30 (df=29) at the level significance 0.05 indicated that there were significance of Literal (7.9>
1.699) and Interpretative(3.9> 1.699). Based on the research finding, the researcher concluded that the cognitive strategy improved the students’ literal comprehension and interpretative comprehension significantly.
