THE EFFECT OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE ON THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN I KEDIRI

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Jurnal Bahasa Inggris | The main objective of this study was to investigate whether there was a significant interactional effect of cooperative learning techniques and student’s attitude on the reading comprehension. The study was conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMAN I Kediri.There were two independent variables used in this research, namely: cooperative learning techniques (TPS and CIRC) and students’ attitude toward reading as moderator variable; and one dependent variable, which was reading comprehension.This study was an experimental study with Posttest Only Randomized Experiment Group Design by 2x2 factorial arrangement. The population was 6 classes which consisted of 236 students while the number of the sample was 84.The obtained data of the study were collected using two types of instrument: the reading comprehension test and reading attitude questionnaire.The data were analyzed by two way Anova and continued to Tukey test . The results of the analysis showed that (1) there was a significant difference in reading comprehension between the students’ who were treated by using different cooperative learning techniques (2) there was a significant interactional effect of cooperative learning techniques and students’ attitude towards the students’ reading comprehension. The result of tukey test showed that: (3) There was a significant difference in reading comprehension between the students with positive attitude who were treated with TPS and those who were treated with CIRC (4) There was a significant difference in reading comprehension between the students with negative attitude who were treated with TPS and those who were treated with CIRC. The result of the research showed that CIRC technique more effective for teaching reading comprehension better than TPS. 

Keyword: cooperative learning, attitude, reading comprehension