THE EFFECTIVNESS OF USING SELF MONITORING AS READING STRATEGIES TOWARD STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Abstract: Reading has an important role in learning, reading we can get a lot of information that can develop inside and outside the classroom. Reading is also the most important component in the process of learning and social interaction because reading is a means of communication in civilized society, the reading material produced in any period of time in history. Reading is one of the important language skills that students must master. The purpose of reading will be achieved not only when the reader understands the reading text but also when the reader knows which skills and strategies correspond to the type of text, and understands how to apply them to achieve the purpose of reading. Reading which one of the four language skills can be classified into two types, initial reading and reading comprehension. Initial reading is an effort made by those who have not been able to read to learn reading, where reading comprehension is an activity aimed to understand, there are many strategy which can is can used by the teacher to help students mastering the reading comprehension, such as using self-monitoring to reading comprehensions.
The research used quasi experimental research intended to find out the effect of using self-monitoring on students reading comprehension. And it was conducted in SMP Wahid Hasyim Malang. The subject consisted of 50 students from two classes, namely class VII A and VII B. To test students' reading comprehension, the researcher used a test. The test is pretest and posttest with 25 items multiple choice. Then, the data is analyzed by using SPSS 20 and sample paired T-test.
The result of this study showed that strategies self monitoring and reading comprehension is not significant because the significant values is .000, which is less than 0.05 level (.000<0.05). Which means that two variable is not affective. Based on the result from text pretets and posttest each class some students get bad score in pretest after that get good score in posttest.

Keywords: Using self - monitoring, reading comprehension