The comparative study between top-down and bottom-up strategies in reading comprehension to the grade X students of SMA N 1 Tukka Tapanuli Tengah

Aritonang, Helmi Wahyuni (2018) The comparative study between top-down and bottom-up strategies in reading comprehension to the grade X students of SMA N 1 Tukka Tapanuli Tengah. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is focused on the comparative study between top-down and bottom-up strategies in reading comprehension to the grade X students of SMA N 1 Tukka Tapanuli Tengah. The student problems in this research are: the first, students are difficult get information of the text, because the students are boring while reading, and if the teacher orderly students reading a book, students feel sleepy. The Second, the students for comprehend main ideas of the text, because they are do not know difference between topic sentence, supporting sentences, and conclusion sentence. The last, the students ability in English teaching is still low, because many students still use conventional strategy, especially in reading. So, students are disable to read English text, less interested and less understanding of they read, cause students to feel tired. The method used in this research is experimental research. Two classes are chosen randomly as the sample. They are X IPA-1 that consisted of 28 students and X IPA-2 that consisted of 28 students. It is taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data is derived from pre test and post-test. To analyze the data, the researcher uses t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher finding that mean score of class after by using top-down strategy is higher than bottom-up. Mean score of class by using top-down strategy is 76.5 and mean score of class by using bottom-up strategy is 64.1. Besides, the score of tcount is higher than ttable (4.804 > 2.000) in Post Test. It is meaned that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted. It is concluded that there is a significant differences between the mastery of the grade X IPA SMA N 1 Tukka Tapanuli Tengah in reading mastery by using top-down and bottom-up strategy.

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