THE COMPARISON OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BETWEEN NATURAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 TAPUNG
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- Based on the preliminary study at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung, the researcher found that some of students have problems and difficulties of reading English text especially in descriptive text. Thus, the researcher aimed at finding the comparison of students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text between natural science and social science students at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung. The design of this research was quantitative research used comparative research. The population in this research was 210 students. In this research, the researcher used proportional stratified random sampling. The sample taken 20% of the population. Thus, the sample total was 20% x 210 students = 42 students. The technique of analyzing data was an independent sample t-test and it was facilitated by using SPSS 17.0 program. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded that there was a significant difference of reading comprehension between natural science and social science students on reading descriptive text comprehension at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung. It was considered by t obtained = 3.329 that was higher than ttable either at 5% = 2.021 or 1% = 2.704. It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. From the research finding, it showed that there was a significant difference in reading comprehension of descriptive text between natural science and social science students at the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tapung. Keywords: Comparison, Natural Science and Social Science Students, Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text.