Abstract
The purpose of this research was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to teach reading comprehension by using Predict, Locate, Add Note strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher used pre experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population was all the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau which consisted of 440 students. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling. The sample was 40 students. The data was collected through test consisted of 20 items of multiple choices. The data were analyzed through four techniques: 1) students’ individual score, 2) minimum mastery criteria, 3) normality, and 4) matched t-test calculation. The result of this research: (1) the mean students’ score in the pre-test was 62.3, (2) The mean score of post-test was 77.3, and (3) the result of Matched t-test was 10.86, which was higher than 1.684 value of the t-table of 39 (40-1) with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. Therefore, null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that it was significantly effective to teach reading comprehension by using Predict, Locate, Add Note Strategy to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2016/2017.
Highlights
Language becomes a media to be used as human communication
It can be said that Predict, Locate, Add Note strategy was effective to be used in reading comprehension to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2016/2017
Based on the result of the research researcher concludes that it was significantly effective to teach reading comprehension by using Predict, Locate, Add Note strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017?” It could be proved by the result of the test and the differences between the two means of score in the pre-test and in the post-test which was calculated by using matched ttest formula
Summary
Language becomes a media to be used as human communication. People make efforts to convey and obtain the various informations needed in their daily life. Language is a fundamental part of human being (Haliwel, 1992:11). Language is a complex, specialize skill which develops in the child spontaneously without conscious effort or formal instruction (Brown, 2001:7). Language is very important thing for people. From many kinds of language used by most of people all over the world, English is one of international language that is claimed to be learned as lingua franca including in Indonesia which learned English as Foreign Language
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