Eri Kurniawati (2013) THE EFFECT OF USING WORD SORT STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 SIAK HULU KAMPAR REGENCY THE EFFECT OF USING WORD SORT STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 SIAK HULU KAMPAR REGENCY THE EFFECT OF USING WORD SORT STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 SIAK HULU KAMPAR REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on the school based curriculum (KTSP), reading is one of English skills that must be taught and learned by students. SMAN 2 Siak Hulu is one of the schools that used it as a guide in teaching-learning process. After doing preliminary observation, the writer found that some of students of the second year still had the problems in reading comprehension. The writer interpreted the problems that were some of students are not able to identify topic of the text, communicative purpose, generic structures, understand vocabulary in context, and identify word of reference. Thus, the researcher was interested in conducting the research entitled “The Effect of Using Word Sort Strategy toward Reading Comprehension of the Second Year Students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu-Kampar Regency”. The objectives of this research were to find out the ability of the second year students in comprehending reading text by using Word Sort strategy, to find out the ability of the second year students in comprehending reading text without using Word Sort strategy, and to obtain the effect of using Word Sort strategy toward reading comprehension of the second year students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu Kampar Regency. The type of this research was quasi-experimental. The subject of this research was the second year students at State Senior High School 2 Siak Hulu, while the object of this research was the effect of using Word Sort strategy toward students’ reading comprehension. The population of this research was all of four science classes of the second year students in academic year of 2011/2012. The sample was chosen through cluster random sampling. One class was as experimental class and another one was as control class. To analyze the data, the researcher used i ndependent T-test formula. Finally, from the result of data analysis, the researcher found that To was higher than Ttable . In other word, Ha was accepted and H 0 was rejected. It means that, there is a significant effect of using Word Sort strategy toward reading comprehension of the second year students at state senior high school 2 Siak Hulu-Kampar Regency. Therefore, it can be concluded that students’ reading comprehension taught by using Word Sort strategy was better than students’ reading comprehension taught without using Word Sort strategy.

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