Abstract:
The objectivesof this research were to find the significance effect of
context clues strategy on students’ achievement in reading comprehension. The
population of this research was the first years students’ of MA Swasta PPM ArRasyid
Pinang Awan academic year 2016-2017. The population of this research
was 80 students of X
1
2
and X
. The sample was taken two classes. The research is
devided into two classes for Experimental class 40 students’ and for the Control
Class 40 students. The instrument in collecting data was collected by using
multiple choice test about narrative text and analyzed the data from students’
answer. After the data has been collected, they were analyzed by using t-test. tc
was higher than tt (4.39 > 2.00) with the level significant 0.05 and the degree of
freedom (df) = 78. The finding showed that the hypothesis of study is accepted. It
means that by using context clues strategy given significant effect in increasing
the students’ in reading. The students difficulties in reading comprehension by
using context clues strategy is the students lacking in reading because did not
understand the meaning of texts. Therefore, the finding of the study indicated that
students’ achievement in teaching narrative text using Context Clues Strategy was
more significant
