The Effect Of Extensive Reading Strategy On The Students’ Critical Thinking In Reading

Abstract

The experimental quantitative research design was applied in this research. The objective of the study was to find out the effect of extensive reading strategy on the students’ critical thinking in reading. This research was conducted at SMA Al- Hikmah Medan in eleventh grade students academic year 2019/2020 which consisted of 3 clasess as the population. The sample was consisted of 80 students which were taken by using purposive sampling technique and divided into two different groups namely experimental class which consisted of 40 students and control class which consisted of 40 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 extensive reading strategy on the students’ critical thinking in reading with tcritical (tc) value was higher than ttable on the level 6.1827 > 2.024. 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 extensive reading strategy (experimental class) got higher scores than the students who were taught by applying lecturing method (control class). So, it meant that applying of extensive reading strategy on the students’ critical thinking in reading was succeeded.