A Comparative Study on the Effect of Using Two Stay and Two Stray Strategy (TSTS )and Directed Reading Activity (DRA) technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension at Vocational High School Pharamacy Ikasari Pekanbaru
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- The main objective of the study was to find out a comparison between the effect of usingTSTS strategy and DRA Strategy on students’ reading comprehension at the Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru. The study used a quasiexperimental approach of nonequivalent (pre-test and post-test ). The participants of thestudy comprised 79 students of Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru. The TSTSstrategy was used in the experimental group 1(n=39); DRA Strategy was used in the experimental group 2 (n= 40). The data werecollected using a pre-test and a post-test. Quantitative data wereanalyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.The findings showed a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension between the experimental group 1 through TSTSstrategy (M=86.61 and SD=4.35) and t h e experimental group 2through DRAstrategy (M=80.40 and SD=9.75), in which, index t=-3.68 with p=0,000<0.05. Thus, the TSTS strategy was more effective than the DRA strategy to the students’ reading comprehension mastery at the Vocational High School Pharmacy Ikasari Pekanbaru in academic year 2016-2017.