Improving the Students Achievement in Reading Comprehension through Questioning of Collaborative Teaching Strategies

Abstract

This study deals with Improving the Students Achievement in Reading Comprehension through Questioning of Collaborative Teaching Strategies. This research will be conducted at SMP Swasta Asuhan Jaya Medan and this research focusing on class VIII A which consist of 28 student’s. The second semester in the academic year of 2017/2018. The population in social science research refers to all of your potential participants; think of it as the whole group of people in which you are interested. The population of this research is class VIII AK which consist of 28 student’s. The researcher choose random sampling technique of class VIII SMP Swasta Asuhan Jaya Medan to get the data. After doing the research and analyzing the data, the researcher could conclude that Questioning of Collaborative Teaching Strategies had significantly improved the student’s` achievement in reading. It was found out that student’s` score increased from pretest until the test of cycle 1 and test of cycle 2. It is shown from the improvement of the means of student’s` score namely the mean of test of cycle I (72.3) was higher than the mean of the student’s` score in pre-test (54.35) and the mean of cycle II (90.8) was higher than the mean of the student’s` score in test I (63.285). it can be stated that the score continuously improved from the pretest until the test of cycle 2. Questioning of Collaborative Teaching Strategies can make the learners be active in learning English and also to show their ability in communicating in the foreign language. In other words, teaching reading by Questioning of Collaborative Teaching Strategies is succesfully done and brings good improvement to the student’s` achievement