IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 10th GRADERS OF SMA N 4 PALEMBANG BY USING RCRR STRATEGY
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- The objective of this study is to find out whether or not there is a significant difference in students’ reading comprehension achievement before and after they are taught through RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) strategy and to find out whether or not there is a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between students who are taught through RCRR (Read, Cover, Remember, Retell) strategy and those who are not. The sample of this study was two classes which had the same number of students, different average score in their English achievement, and were taught by the same teacher. The two classes were divided into experimental group and control group, and both of them were given pre-test and post-test. The writer used t-test in Statistical Package of analyzing the data for the Social Science (SPSS 24). The result of paired sample t-test in the experimental group showed that the mean of post-test (78.93) was higher than the mean of pre-test (61.01). The result of paired sample t-test in control group showed that the mean of post-test (66,64) was higher than the mean of pre-test (63.50). The result of p-value was 0.000. It could be concluded that the application of RCRR strategy to the tenth graders of senior high school number four of Palembang is effective