IMPROVING THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL BY USING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Abstract

Reading is one part of English skills that very important in learning English for students. Many students are content to read in English, but for the other students still have some problems. The students feel hard when they are reading descriptive text, they do not understand every word when they read the text, because they do not know enough vocabulary, and the teacher still uses traditional method to teach reading in the classroom. To acquire the students’ reading skill is needed to stimulate participation of students. Therefore, in this study, researcher will try to apply collaborative learning approach. This model is expected to overcome the problem that occurs in the field. This research is aimed to find out whether teaching reading using collaborative learning is effective to improve students’ reading skill, to collect students’ perception and impression of collaborative learning process, and to collect the progression result of students’ participant in learning reading descriptive text at VII-2 class of SMPIT Darul Muttaqin Bogor.