Abstract:
The Effect of Word Attack Strategy toward the Students
Reading Skill of Descriptive Text at Grade VII SMP Negri I Teluk Mengkudu in
2023/2024 Academic Year. Skripsi. English Education Study Program. Teachers’
Training and Education Faculty of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatra Utara.This
research was intended to find out the empirical evidence of the students’ achievement
in Reading skill of descriptive text by Effect of Word Attack Strategy at grade VII SMP
Negri I Teluk Mengkudu. This research was experimental research. The population of
this research was all students of class VII. The sample of this research were taken from
20 students of experimental group I and 19 students of control group 2). The instrument
for collecting data was a test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. From this
analysis, the mean of experimental group was 94,25 and the mean of control group was
71,05. This research found that using Word Attack Strategy has significant effect in
Reading Skill. It can be proved by the result of the analysis that t-score (t-o) = 6,189
was higher than the ttable (t-t) = 1,687 with the significant 0,05. So, Ha is accepted. In
the other word, the using Word Attack Strategy more effective and more significant than
using conventional method.
