Sarimah (2014) THE EFFECT OF USING MEMORY MATRIX ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 KUALA MERBAU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

This research was conducted because of some problems faced by students in learning English especially in reading comprehension of narrative text. The problems are; some of the students were not able to identify the main idea from the reading text, some of the students were not able to find the key word in the text and some of the students got difficulties to answer the comprehension questions based on the reading text. This research aimed at finding out whether or not there was significant effect of using memory matrix on students’ reading comprehension of the first year at senior high school 3 kuala merbau and those who were taught by using conventional strategy. The design used in this research was nonequivalent control group design in Quasi-Experimental research. In collecting data, the writer used test, it was used in order to collect the data of students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at the first year. The tests consisted of two tests: Pretest was used to determine students’ reading comprehension before getting the treatment and Post test was used to determine students’ reading comprehension after getting the treatment. To analyze the data, the researcher applied Independent sample T-test formula by using SPSS 16 version. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that there was significant difference of Using Memory Matrix on Students’ Reading Comprehension of The First Year at Senior High School 3 Kuala Merbau, where tobserved shows 7.930 at significant level of 5%, ttable shows 2.00, and at significant level of 1%, ttable shows 2.65. Thus, Null Hypothesis (Ho) is Rejected, and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is Accepted, which shows 2.00<7.930>2.65. It can be concluded that students’ reading comprehension taught by using memory matrix technique was better than students’ reading comprehension taught without using memory matrix technique.

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