THE EFFECT OF USING WORD SORT STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 SIAK HULU KAMPAR REGENCY THE EFFECT OF USING WORD SORT STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS A

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Based on the school based curriculum (KTSP), reading is one of English skills
that must be taught and learned by students. SMAN 2 Siak Hulu is one of the schools
that used it as a guide in teaching-learning process. After doing preliminary
observation, the writer found that some of students of the second year still had the
problems in reading comprehension. The writer interpreted the problems that were
some of students are not able to identify topic of the text, communicative purpose,
generic structures, understand vocabulary in context, and identify word of reference.
Thus, the researcher was interested in conducting the research entitled “The Effect of
Using Word Sort Strategy toward Reading Comprehension of the Second Year
Students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu-Kampar Regency”.
The objectives of this research were to find out the ability of the second year
students in comprehending reading text by using Word Sort strategy, to find out the
ability of the second year students in comprehending reading text without using Word
Sort strategy, and to obtain the effect of using Word Sort strategy toward reading
comprehension of the second year students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu
Kampar Regency.
The type of this research was quasi-experimental. The subject of this research
was the second year students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu, while the
object of this research was the effect of using Word Sort strategy toward students’
reading comprehension. The population of this research was all of four science
classes of the second year students in academic year of 2011/2012. The sample was
chosen through cluster random sampling. One class was as experimental class and
another one was as control class. To analyze the data, the researcher used i ndependent
T-test formula.
Finally, from the result of data analysis, the researcher found that To
was higher
than Ttable
. In other word, Ha
was accepted and H
0
was rejected. It means that, there is
a significant effect of using Word Sort strategy toward reading comprehension of the
second year students at state senior high school 2 Siak Hulu-Kampar Regency.
Therefore, it can be concluded that students’ reading comprehension taught by using
Word Sort strategy was better than students’ reading comprehension taught without
using Word Sort strategy.

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