The effect of using directed reading thinking activity (DRTA) strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at grade XI MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan

Pulungan, Sartika (2015) The effect of using directed reading thinking activity (DRTA) strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at grade XI MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the effect of using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at Grade XI MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were most of the student have difficulties in understanding what they have read, and most of them lack of motivation and attention about of reading activities, and also the reading comprehension of the students still get low grade with average 75; meanwhile the standard of English competency in this school is 80. So, the students’ reading comprehension does not fulfill expectation. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at Grade XI MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan. This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was the eleventh grade of MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were three classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, experiment class (XI-1) and control class XI-2). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ Reading Comprehension. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the result of experimental class was higher than control class (82.7> 65), and the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (32.35 > 2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at Grade XI MA YPKS Padangsidimpuan.

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