The Effect of Socioaffective Language Learning Strategy on the Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out the effect of Socioaffective Language Learning Strategy on the Students’ Achievement in reading comprehension. This research applied experimental research. The population of this research was taken from the Eight grade and the second year students of junior high school in SMP Terbuka Negeri 5 Medan Jl. Stasiun Desa Besar Medan Labuhan at academic 2016/2017 with the total population were 133 students. This research was applied purposive sampling. This research used experimental research design namely One group pre-test and post-test, Therefore, the research took one class as the experimental class. The sample was taken from third parallel classes with the total number of sample was 33 student. The researcher were given treatment by socioaffective language learning strategy. The instrument of collecting data multiple choice which consist of 20 items. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the data showed that tobserve 7.4> ttable 2.03951 with degree of freedom (df) = n-k. The hypothesis was accepted. It proves that Socioaffective Language Learning Strategy significantly effect to the students’ achievement in reading comprehension.