TAHAP STRATEGI METAKOGNITIF(SM) BACAAN TEKS BAHASA ARAB KALANGAN PELAJAR SMKA SEREMBAN

Abstract

This article is about the level of Metacognitive Strategy (SM) regarding reading Arabic text among SMKA Students in Seremban. This study is a mixed-method that considered as an explanatory study that focuses on the reaction of students of SMKA at the district of Seremban on the reading of Arabic texts. The reaction of students is including their reaction after received treatment of the Metacognitive Strategy (SM) such as planning, monitoring, and evaluation strategies. This study begins with collecting quantitative data through 60 respondents to investigate the first objective in supporting the second objective and third objective which is a quantitative study. There are three respondents were selected to answer qualitative study which consists second objective and third objective. The first finding indicates the mean for planning strategy 3.5 at a high level. While the second position is the monitoring strategy, mean at 3.66 indicates high level as well. The strategy of evaluating indicates mean 3.47 at the third position at a moderate level. The total amount is 3.54 which indicate high level. The second finding indicates that every respondent faced vocabulary problems. They used SM to assist their reading skills to comprehend Arabic text. The third finding indicates that one respondent faced a problem during undergoing SM training. Therefore he failed to master the evaluation strategy in a short time. Meanwhile, all respondents confessed that they did not face any problems during the Training of SM. The implication of this study is to contribute and suggest to Arabic teachers to implement Training of SM to boost students’ ability in comprehending Arabic text