TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION BY EXPERIENCE-TEXTRELATIONSHIP (ETR) STRATEGY TO THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP SANDIKA PALEMBANG
Abstract: The objective of the
study is to find out whether or not there is asignificant different on
students’ reading comprehension who were taught using Experience- Text-
Relationship (ETR) Strategy and who were taught using methodusually used by
teacher to the eighth grade students of SMP SANDIKA Palembang. The population
of the study was the Eighth Grade Students of SMP SANDIKAPalembang in the
academic year of 2013/2014. The sample of the study was taken from convenience
sampling. The writer was selected the class VIII 2 as the control group and
VIII 1 as the experimental group. It consisted of 83 students, 40 studentsfor
control group and 43 students for experimental group. In this study, the writerused
quasi experimental design. The instrument used in collecting the data was written
test. The test was administered twice, as the pre-test and post-test for bothcontrol
and experimental group. The results of the test were analyzed by using t-test. The
result showed that teaching reading using ETR had a significant difference on
the students’ comprehension. It can be seen from the result of pretest to
post-test of eachgroup. The achievement of experimental group was higher than
the achievement ofcontrol group. Based on the independent t-test analysis from
students’ pretest toposttest score in experimental group taught using
Experience – Text - Relationship(ETR) strategy, it was found that t-output was
lower than p-value or t-obtained washigher than t-table. From the table
analysis, p-output was 0.000 and the t-obtained7.312. The result was consulted
to t-table at the significance level 0.05 in two-tailed testing with the degree
freedom (1.989). since the p-output was lower than 0.05 level than t-value was
higher than critical value of t-table, so the Ho (the null hypotheses)was
rejected and the Ha (the alternative hypotheses) was accepted. It means thatthere
was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension taught using Experience-
Text- Relationship (ETR) strategy of SMP SANDIKA Palembang.
Penulis: MENSI RESOLUSI
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150178
