Ake Andriani (2012) A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON READING COMPREHENSION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS TAUGHT BY USING READ, EXAMINE, DECIDE AND WRITE (REDW) STRATEGY AND THOSE TAUGHT BY USING CONVENTIONAL TEHNIQUE AT THE GRADE ELEVEN STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 ENOK. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

The teaching of reading at SMA N 1 Enok was based on the approach of conventional strategy. The consequence of the way that English as foreign language reading is taught was many students do not actually able to comprehended English text. The purpose of this research to investigate the whether students who were taught by using Read, Examine, Decide, and Write (REDW) Strategy have better scores than those who were taught based on the approach of conventional strategy in their reading comprehension. To do this research, two groups of students (experimental and control group) at the grade eleven of SMA N 1 Enok participated in this research. Each group had different treatment; experimental class was treated by Read, Examine, Decide, and Write (REDW) Strategy and control class was treated by conventional strategy. This research was done for eight meetings. The data had been collected by administering reading comprehension test to experimental and control groups at beginning and the end of the research. The instrument consists of 20 reading comprehension questions. The test item had been made based on the indicators of reading comprehension. The researcher checked the reliability of the instrument by analyzed the try out result by using Hoyt’s formula. To describe whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the researcher used the analysis of observation and t-Test formula. The formula was calculated by using SPSS for windows. Pretest result in each research classes showed that both experimental and control classes were almost similar in reading comprehension achievement. As conclusion, according to the result of the hypothesis testing, there is significant difference between teaching by using Read, Examine, Decide, and Write (REDW) Strategy and conventional technique. Teaching reading by using Read, Examine, Decide, and Write (REDW) Strategy is effective to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement at grade eleven of SMA N Enok.

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