Endang Dwi Lestari (2013) THE EFFECT OF USING WHAT, SO WHAT, NOW WHAT TECHNIQUE TOWARDREADING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECONDYEARSTUDENTS AT SMAN 3 TAPUNGKAMPAR REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on school based curriculum (KTSP), reading is as one of the English skills that must be taught and learned in senior high school. SMA N 3 Tapung is one of the schools that uses it as a guide in teaching- learning process. After doing preliminary observation there, the writer found that some of the students of the second year still had problems in comprehending the text. The reaearcher interpreted that they had lack of comprehension because they had lack of vocabulary, unable to identify the topic, unable to recognize the generic structure of the text and so forth. The objectives of this research were to find out the ability of the second year students in comprehending reading text without using What, So What, Now What technique, to find out the ability of the second year students in comprehending reading text by using What, So what, Now what technique, and to obtain the effect of using What, So what, Now what technique toward reading comprehension in analytical exposition text of the second year students at SMA N 3 Tapung Kampar Regency. The type research was quasi-experimental research . The design based on pretests, posttests, and use of a control group was employed in this research. The subject of this research was the second year students at SMA N 3 Tapung. The object of this research was the effect of using What, So what, Now what technique. The population of this research was all of the second year students in the academic year of 2011/ 2012. The sample was chosen through cluster sampling. One class was nominated as the experimental group and another one was the control group. To analyze the data, the researcher used Independent t-test formula. The result of data analysis was that To was higher than t table . In other word, there is a significant effect of using What, So what, Now what technique toward reading comprehension in analytical exposition text of the second year students at SMA N 3 Tapung Kampar Regency. Therefore, it can be concluded that students’ reading comprehension in analytical exposition text taught by using What, So what, Now what technique was better than students’ reading comprehension taught by using three phased technique.

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