Siti Nurhidayah (2013) THE EFFECT OF USING REPEATED READING STRATEGY TOWARD READING FLUENCY AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 KABUN ROKAN HULU REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Many problems in learning English included in reading especially in reading fluency are faced by some of the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency. It can be seen from the unsatisfactory reading score and some problems that students confront in reading. The students get difficulty when they read a text such as: pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, pausing and stressing. Therefore, the writer is interested in conducting this research. The purpose of this research is to know whether student’s reading fluency in descriptive text taught by using Repeated Reading Strategy is better than taught without using Repeated Reading Strategy at the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency, and to find out the significant effect of using repeated reading strategy toward students’ reading fluency in descriptive text at the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency. This research is experimental research, precisely a quasi experimental research. The sample of this research is the second year student of SMPN 3 Kabun. The instrument of this research is test. The data were analyzed by using T-test. Where, T-test was used to find out the effect of using repeated reading strategy at the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Rgency. Based on the analysis of data, the result of post-test experimental class and post-test of control class show that, mean score of experiment class is 55.47 and standard deviation of experiment class is 3.42. While, mean score of control class is 46.52 and standard deviation of control class is 2.41. It show that, mean score and standard deviation of experiment class is greater than mean score and standard deviation of control class. It means teaching reading fluency by implementing Repeated Reading Strategy at the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency is better than without implementing Repeated Reading Strategy. While, the score of t-test is 9.12, which is greater than t-table at the 5% level of significance (2.03), and at 1% level of significance (2.72). It can be stated that 2.03 < 9.12 > 2.72. So, hypothesis null ( ) is rejected and hypothesis alternative( ) is accepted. It means, there is significant effect of Using Repeated Reading Strategy toward Students Reading Fluency at The Second Year of Students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency. The writer concludes that using repeated reading strategy is suitable as one way in teaching reading fluency in order to increase students reading fluency at the second year students of SMPN 3 Kabun Rokan Hulu Regency.

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