ABSTRACT

Name : Perdila Desi
Major : English Education Program
Title : The Effect of using Reciprocal Teaching Strategy on Reading
Comprehension of Nine Grade Students At Junior High School 13
Sarolangun.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there was a
significant effect of using Reciprocal Teaching Strategy on reading
comprehension and to know there was the significant diference of reading
comprehension between students who are taught by using Reciprocal Teaching
Strategy and those who are not The study was conducted at Junior High School 13
Sarolangun in October – November 2017. The population in this study were all
nine graders of Junior High School 13 Sarolangun, students of the nine grade were
about 67 students, each class consisted of less than 30 students. The researcher
used Reciprocal Teaching Strategy in class IX A as the experimental class and
class IX C used REDW (Read, Examine, Decide, Write) Strategy as control class.
This research used quantitative – experimental approach. The design of study was
quasi-experimental design, it was the pretest-posttest non- equivalent group
design. The data was collected by a test as research instruments, there were two
test: pre-test and posttest. The data were processed and analyzed by using SPSS
22 statistic technique of independent t-test and paired sample t-test. From the
results of the test, the independent t-test calculation in posttest score in both
groups showed that the significance value was higher than level of significance (
0,361 > 0,05). It indicated that there was the significant difference between
experimental and control group. Moreover, the paired t-test calculation showed
the result of paired sample t-test (12,805<0,05) in which there was a significant
effect of using RT Strategy on students reading comprehension.
Key words : Experimental research, RT ( Reciprocal Teaching ) strategy, Reading
Comprehension