Abstract:
Mita, Hardiyanti. 1402050194. The Effect of Applying Preview, Ask, Read, and Summarize (PARS) Strategy on the Students’ Reading Achievement in Narrative Text. Skripsi. English Department of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara, Medan, 2018.
This study deals with The Effect of Applying Preview, Ask, Read, and Summarize (PARS) Strategy on the Students’ Reading Achievement in Narrative Text. This objective of the research was to find out the significant effect of applying PARS Strategy on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text. This research was conducted at SMA Al-Hidayah Medan, on Jl.Letda Sujono Gg.Perguruan Number.4 in the academic year 2017/2018. The population of this study was ten grade students which consisted 3 classes, X-IPA (31) X-IPS 1 (28) and X-IPS 2 (28) with 87 students by using Purposive Sampling and the researcher has chosen 2 classes, X-IPA (31) and X-IPS-2 (28), consist of 59 students. Class X-IPA as Experimental group was taught by using PARS Strategy and class X-IPS 2 as Control group was taught by Direct Method. The instrument of the research was multiple choice test. Multiple choice test with 20 items were administrated to the students. The researcher gave a pre-test, treatment and post-test to both of the groups. The researcher was collected the data, they were analyzed by using T-test formula. The result showed that T-Observe was 2.32 and T-Table was 2.00 at α = 0.05, and df = 57. The fact showed that T-Observe was greater than T-table (2.32>2.00). It meant that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The result of this research concluded that there was a significant effect on the students’ reading achievement in narrative text after being taught by PARS Strategy
