Cognitive Strategies in Teaching Reading Comprehension
Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension through Cognitive Strategies of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Tompobulu Gowa By Hasyim Abstract This research is a quasi experimental research at the objective of finding the increasing students’ reading comprehension achievement through the cognitive strategies (rehearsal, organization, and elaboration) and to what extent these cognitive strategies influence the students’ reading comprehension achievement. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Tompobulu Gowa which consisted of 50 respondents into two classes; each class consisted of 25 respondents, one class as a control class and another class as the experimental one. The data were collected through the reading comprehension test in pretest and posttest and the observation checklist during the teaching and learning process. The test consisted of 45 items of test from three kinds of texts (news item, descriptive, and narrative te...