Abstract:
This research was aimed to find out the effect of directed reading thinking
activity towards students‘ reading comprehension ability. The objective of the
research were (1) to find out the significant effect of DRTA in students‘ reading
comprehension ability (2) to find out the difficulties faced by the students in reading
comprehension ability. The population of this research was eight grade of MTs N 2
Medan at Academic Year 2016/2017. It consisted of two classes divided into
experimental group consisted 38 students and control group consisted 39 students.
This research was conducted by using Quantitative research. The instrument of
research was test including pre-test and post-test. In the pre-test the mean score of
experimental group was 56.44. And in the post-test the mean score was 93.28.
Meanwhile, in pre-test, students‘ score of control group was 54.23 and in the posttest,
the students‘ score of control group was 66.92. Thus, the t-observe in this
research was 10.5 and the t-table was 2.00 which used 0.05 as the significant level of
this research. Because the t-observe value is higher than the t-table (10.5 > 2.00) so,
the result of this research was Ha is accepted. It can be concluded that DRTA strategy
can effect students‘ reading comprehension. Indeed, it is recommended for teachers
to apply this strategy in teaching English, especially in teaching reading.
