The Effect of Using Semantic Clues Technique on the Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This study is about the effect of using Semantic Clues Technique on the Students’ Achievement in reading comprehension. This study was conducted at SMP Terbuka Negeri 5 Medan jl stasiun Desa besar Medan Labuhan at academic 2016/2017. The Population of this research was eight grade students,which consist of 60 students,distributed into two classes.purposive sample technique was applied, and the VIII-1 chosen as the sample. The sample was taught by using semantic clues technique. Experimental one group pre test and post test research design was applied in this research. In order to abtain the data,completing test consist of 20 items were administrated to the students’. The result showed that applying semantic clues technique has a significant effect on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension which was proven from the calculated of t-test. It is proved from the calculation of which is higher than 6.301> 1.701 with the level significances 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 28. The hypothesis was accepted. It means that Ha was accepted and Ho is rejected. The effect of using semantic clues technique on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension tags was 58.6% and 41.4 % was influced by other factors.