The Effect of Context Clues Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension

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