The effect of text-to-self connection technique on reading comprehension at the xi grade students of MAS KHA Dahlan Sipirok

Marhamah, Yessy (2025) The effect of text-to-self connection technique on reading comprehension at the xi grade students of MAS KHA Dahlan Sipirok. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on finding the effect of Text-to-Self Connection Technique to Students Reading Comprehension at the XI grade of MAS KHA Dahlan Sipirok. There are some difficulties on students’ Reading Comprehension such as: 1) Most of the students had lack of understanding an English text. 2) Most of the students had poor reading comprehension. 3) Most of the students did not have many vocabularies in English. 4) There is need to use a learning technique for reading comprehension. The purposes of this research were to know the students’ reading comprehension before and after learning by using Text-to-Self Connection Technique and to examine the significant effect of using of using Text-to-Self Connection Technique on students reading comprehension. This research has quantitative with experimental method with pretest-posttest control group design. The population were all of the students in the XI grade. The samples taken by Total sampling technique where class XI-1 (25 students) as experimental class and XI-2 (25 students) as control class. The data is collected through pre-test and post-test and analyzed by using T-test formula. The result of this research showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher thean the mean score of control class after learning by using Text-to-Self Connection Technique. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that t-count > t-table with score 2.258 > 2.060. Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted. It can be concluded that there is a significant effect of using Text-to-Self Connection Technique on Reading Comprehension at the XI grade student of MAS KHA Dahlan Sipirok.

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