THE EFFECT OF USING MEMORY MATRIX ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 KUALA MERBAU

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This research was conducted because of some problems faced by students
in learning English especially in reading comprehension of narrative text. The
problems are; some of the students were not able to identify the main idea from
the reading text, some of the students were not able to find the key word in the
text and some of the students got difficulties to answer the comprehension
questions based on the reading text. This research aimed at finding out whether or
not there was significant effect of using memory matrix on students’ reading
comprehension of the first year at senior high school 3 kuala merbau and those
who were taught by using conventional strategy.
The design used in this research was nonequivalent control group design
in Quasi-Experimental research. In collecting data, the writer used test, it was
used in order to collect the data of students’ reading comprehension in narrative
text at the first year. The tests consisted of two tests: Pretest was used to
determine students’ reading comprehension before getting the treatment and Post
test was used to determine students’ reading comprehension after getting the
treatment. To analyze the data, the researcher applied Independent sample T-test
formula by using SPSS 16 version.
After analyzing the data, the researcher found that there was significant
difference of Using Memory Matrix on Students’ Reading Comprehension of The
First Year at Senior High School 3 Kuala Merbau, where tobserved shows 7.930 at
significant level of 5%, ttable shows 2.00, and at significant level of 1%, ttable shows
2.65. Thus, Null Hypothesis (Ho) is Rejected, and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is
Accepted, which shows 2.00<7.930>2.65.
It can be concluded that students’ reading comprehension taught by using
memory matrix technique was better than students’ reading comprehension taught
without using memory matrix technique.

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