Fina Wardan (2012) THE EFFECT OF USING IMAGINE, ELABORATE, PREDICT AND CONFIRM (IEPC) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR OF STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 14 DUMAI. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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The title of this research was “The Effect of Using Imagine, Elaborate, Predict and Confirm (IEPC) Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension at the Second Year of State Junior High School 14 Dumai”. The research consisted of three formulations of the problem: how students’ reading comprehension taught by using IEPC strategy was, how students’ reading comprehension taught by using conventional strategy was, and is there a significant difference between students taught by using IEPC strategy and students taught by using conventional strategy to improve their reading comprehension. The objective of this research was only to find out the effect of using Imagine, Elaborate, Predict and Confirm (IEPC) strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension at the second year of SMPN 14 Dumai. The research was carried out at SMPN 14 Dumai. It was conducted from Oktober up to November 2011. The subject of the research was the second year students of SMPN 14 Dumai. The population of this research was 208 students. The technique of data collection used in this research was test. The test was given to know the students’ reading comprehension. The test was given twice, before and after treatment. The result of test before treatment indicated that the students’ reading comprehension in experiment class was “enough” with mean 56.62 and control class was “less” with mean 53.25. the result of test after treatment indicated that the students’ reading comprehension of experiment class was “good” with mean 67.78 while at control class was “enough” with mean 58.75. After the data were analyzed by t-test by using SPSS 16.0 version, it was obtained that the mean of the students’ score after treatment was higher than the mean of students’ score before treatment, where was higher than at the significant level of 5% and 1% (2.00 <3.998>2.65). It means, was accepted and was rejected, so it could be decided that there was a significant difference of the using Imagine, Elaborate, Predict and Confirm (IEPC) strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension at the second year of SMPN 14 Dumai.

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