The Effect Of Interactive Reading Strategy On The Students Ability In Finding Main Idea

Abstract

The experimental quantitative research design was applied in this research. The objective of the research was to find out the effect of interactive reading strategy on the students ability in finding main idea. This research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 02 Medan in eight grade students academic year 2019/2020 which consisted of 4 clasess as the population. The sample was consisted of 50 students which were taken by using purposive sampling technique and divided into two different groups namely experimental group which consisted of 25 students and control group which consisted of 25 students. Essay test was used as instrument which consisted of five questions and administrated in pre-test and post-test. Based on the data analysis, the result showed that there was any significant effect of interactive reading strategy on the students’ in reading with ttable on the level 5.3098 > 2.069 . Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It also found that the students who were taught by applying interactive reading strategy (experimental group) got higher scores than the students who were taught by applying lecturing method (control group). So,it meant that applying of interactive reading strategy on the students ability in finding main idea was succeeded