The correlation between cognitive strategies and reading narrative text ability at The Grade VIII Students Of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan

Btr, Yuni Sarah (2025) The correlation between cognitive strategies and reading narrative text ability at The Grade VIII Students Of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study was conducted due to the problem in narrative text reading of eighth-grade students at SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This problem is indicated by students’ difficulties in understanding text content, identifying the structure of narrative texts, determining the main idea, and applying effective reading strategies. This study aims to describe students’ of cognitive strategies, describe students’ reading narrative text ability, and determine whether there is a significant the correlation between cognitive strategies and students’ reading narrative text ability. This research employed a quantitative method with a correlational design. The population of this study consisted of all eighth-grade students at SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan, while the sample was selected using a random sampling technique. The research instruments used were questionnaires and tests. The data were analyzed using the Pearson product-moment correlation. The results of the study show that there is a significant the correlation between cognitive strategies and students’ reading narrative text ability. The t-test results indicate that the calculated t-value is higher than the t-table value; therefore, the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant the correlation between cognitive strategies and student’ reading narrative text ability of eighth-grade students at SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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