Abstract:
This study was carried out to find the effect of applying fix – up strategy on the
students’ reading skill. The research was conducted in SMA Al- Hidayah Medan
on jl. Letda Sudjono Medan Tembung, at the even semester of 2017/2018
academic year,by using total sampling technique and lottery system, all the
population which consist of 60 students and distribuited into two classes were
choosen as the sample. Class X- IPA1 consist of 32 students were choosen as the
experimental group which is taught by fix- up strategy and class X- IPS1 consist
of 28 students were choosen as the control group which is taught by lecturing
method. Experimental quantitative research was applied to analyze the data. In
obtain the data, multiple choice test consist of 50 question were administrated to
the score. By using t- tes technique in analyzed the data, the result showed that to
was higher than ttable (3,769>2.00) at α = 0,05, and df = 58, it means that the
alternative hypotesis (Ha) was accepted, there is a significant effect using fix- up
strategy on the students reading skill
