THE EFFECT OF USING DIRECT READING-THINKING ACTIVITY (DR-TA) STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSIONAT EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 TUALANG SIAK REGENCY
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- Based on the writer’s preliminary observation in Junior High School 3 Tualang Siak Regency, the writer found that the students still had difficulties in comprehending the reading text. In this case, the teacher was expected to find a good strategy in order to give a good contribution to the increase of students’ reading comprehension by applying Direct Reading-Thinking Activity Strategy. The subject of this research was eighth grade students of Junior High School 3 Tualang Siak Regency, and the object of this research was using Direct Reading-Thinking Activity strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension. The research design was a QuasiExperimental research. Total number of population of eighth grade students at Junior High School 3 Tualang Siak Regency was 296, because the number of population was too large, the writer used cluster sampling to take two classes as samples. The data were got from pre-test and post-test and the data were analyzed by using SPSS 17.0 version program with Independent Sample T-test and Effect Size. After analyzing the data, the writer found that there was a significant difference taught by using and without using Direct Reading-Thinking Activity strategy on students’ reading comprehension at eighth grade of junior high school 3 Tualang Siak Regency, where to showed 7.521 in the significance level of 5% which was 2.01 and the level of significance of 1% which was 2.68. It can be seen that 2.01<7.521>2.68. It means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, while the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Based on the data analysis, the writer found that the result of effect size formula was 0.99. It was categorized as large effect. In conclusion, there is a significant effect on students’ reading comprehension taught by using Direct Reading-Thinking Activity at the Eighth Grade of Junior High School 3 Tualang Siak Regency.