The Use of Collaborative Strategic Reading Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension (A Study on Second Grade Student of MTSN Model Banda Aceh)

English is an international language which used by amount of people in the world. In Indonesia, English has become one of the most important school subjects from elementary school until university which written in the Indonesia’s education curriculum. In English, there are four skills that should be mastered. They are: listening, speaking, reading and writing. At second grade of junior high school, students are expected to understand reading text but the reality many students still did not understand the text they read. They sometimes could not find the ideas of the text because they were lack of vocabularies and they did not know the topic of the text. Based on the importance of reading skills which should be mastered by the students, teacher should use an appropiate method to improve student’s reading comprehension to help them achieving the goals of studying. The writer suggests to use Collaborative Strategic Reading tehnique to improve students’ reading comprehension. The research questions of this study are: “is Collaborative Strategic Reading technique really effective to improve students’ reading comprehension?” and “what are the obstacles in applying Collaborative Strategic Reading technique to enhance students’ reading comprehension?”. This research was experimental research which use one class as an experimental class. The population of this research was all of second grade student of MTsN Model Banda Aceh and the sample was class VIII-11. Some techniques were used in obtaining the data: test (pre-test and post-test) and questionnaire. Pre-test was given at the beginning of teaching reading while the pos-test and questionnaire gave at the last meeting. The writer analyzed the data to find out the mean scores of students. The mean scores of the students in pre-test was 64, while in pos-test the score was 86. It can be concluded that Collaborative Strategic Reading technique was effective to enhace students’ reading comprehension. In addition, the writer also find out there are some obstacles of students in applying Collaborative Strategic Reading technique such as lack of vocabularies and difficult to write the text by using their own words. In conclusion, Collaborative Strategic Reading technique consists of four strategies, there are: Preview, Click and Clunck, Get the Gist and Wrap Up which help students to understand about the reading text and students also have to master more vocabularies.