The Effect of Applying Anticipation-Reaction Guide Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This study deals with the effect of applying anticipation-reaction guide strategy on students’ reading comprehension. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this study was the tenth (X) grade students of SMK Negeri 9 Medan with one parallel class. The samples of the study were one class divided into one group, experimental group which were chosen by using cluster random sampling. Thirty-two students were taken as the samples. The experimental group was taught by Applying Anticipation-Reaction Guide Strategy. The instrument for collecting the data was a multiple choice test. The data of this study were taken from the students’ score of reading test. They were pre-test and post-test. Then, after analyzing the data, it was found that the value of tobserved was 7,28 with the degree of freedom (df)=30 at the level of significance p(0.05) = 2.04. It means that tobserved is higher than ttable (7,28 > 2.04). The result of this study shows that AnticipationReaction Guide Strategy has a significant effect on students’

reading comprehension. It means that the hypothesis is accepted. And the percentage of the effect of Anticipation-Reaction Guide strategy to the students’ reading comprehension was 64% and 36% from the other factors