The Effectiveness of Using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in Teaching Reading Comprehension of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA NU Al Ma’ruf Kudus in the Academic Year 2012/2013

Reading skill is something crucial and indispensable to improve the general language skill especially English. The students succeed their study depends greatly on their ability to read. However, many students still have difficulties in comprehending English text, and the tenth grade students of SMA NU Al Ma’rufKudus in the academic year 2012/2013 are one of them. Most of the students admit that they often fell bored when they have to read a textespecially a long and uninteresting topic text. Concerning to this condition, the researcher tries to apply Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in teaching reading comprehension. This research aims to know the effectiveness of using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in teaching reading comprehension of the tenth grade students of SMA NU Al Ma’ruf Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013). This is an experimental research without control group. The population of this research is tenth grade students of SMA NU Al Ma’ruf Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 in second semester consist of 325 students and the sampleis 32 students who were taught using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR).The instrument that is used for measuring the achievement was a test. The result of the experiment had been analyzed statistically; the researcher found that the mean for the pretestis 54.69, and SD is 14.3. While for post test, the mean =72.06 with SD=9.3. The hypothesis testing showed the result that t observation (t_o) is 12.6 and the t-table (df (31) = 2.04 α: 0.05) so t observation is higher than t-table (t_o>t_t). Thus, Ho is denied and H_a is confirmed. Therefore, the hypothesis state, “there is a significant difference of the reading comprehension of the tenth grade students of SMA NU Al Ma’ruf Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). In line with the result, the researcher suggests the English teacher may take benefit from the useof CSR strategy to be applied in teaching reading comprehension.The use of appropriate and interesting strategy for the English teacher to teach reading comprehension is very important because reading is such kinds of activities that often bored for the students. So, using appropriate and interesting strategy will give the students fresh and new condition. Hopefully, it can motivate the students and make them interested in reading