THE EFFECT OF USING SAVE THE LAST WORD FOR ME (SLWM) STRATEGY TOWARD THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 5 PEKANBARU

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This research was conducted because some problems were faced by
students in learning English especially in reading. The problems were; some of the
students cannot identify the main idea from the text given by teacher, some of the
students are not able to interpret the authors’ aim, some of the students are not
able to find the meaning of unfamiliar words in the reading text and some of the
students cannot obtain factual information from the reading text.
The objectives of this research were to find out students’ reading
comprehension by using conventional strategy, to find out students’ reading
comprehension by using Save the Last Word for Me (SLWM) strategy, and to
obtain the significant effect of using Save the Last Word for Me (SLWM) strategy
toward students’ reading comprehension.
The design used in this research was quasi experimental research that was
non-equivalent control group design. In collecting data, the writer used test, it was
used in order to collect the data of students’ reading comprehension. The tests
consisted of two tests: Pretest was used to determine student’s reading
comprehension before getting the treatment and Posttest was used to determine
student’s comprehension after getting the treatment. By the gathering data pre-test
and post-test from both treatment and control groups, the effect of treatment was
analized with Independent T-test Formula.
From the research findings, the score of t
0
was higher than t
table
. Therefore,
h
o
was rejected and ha
was accepted. It means that there was significant effect of
using SLWM strategy toward students’ reading comprehension. It can be
concluded that students’ reading comprehension taught by using SLWM strategy
was better than students’ reading comprehension taught by using conventional
strategy.

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