Abstract:
The objective of the research was to find out whether there is significant effecton
the students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using snowball
throwing. The method of the research was the Experimental research method. The
population of the study was the tenth grade (X) students of SMA Negeri 1 Kuala
at Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan No. 3 Kuala,Kec. Kuala Kab. Langkatin academic
year 2017/1018, which consist of two classes. They were X-Bahasa and X-MIA3
class. The number of population were 72 students. The classes were divided into
two groups, namely experimental group and control group. All the population was
taken as the sample. The experimental group was taught by applying snowball
throwing model and the control group was taught by three phase technique. The
instrument of research was essay test. The essay test consists of 5 items, each
answers have 20 points. The result of this research showed that t-test 2.66 was
higher than t-table1.99 in which t-test > t-table. The hypothesis was accepted. It
means that there were a significant effect of applying snowball throwing assisted
by audio on the students’ reading comprehension
