Abstract:
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Before, During, and After
Reading (BDA) Strategy on students’ reading comprehension achievement in
narrative text. It was conducted in experimental research design. The population
of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 47 Sunggal
which consisted of two parallel classes. Both classes were divided into
experimental group which was taught by applying BDA Strategy, and control
group which was taught without applying BDA Strategy. The sample was taken
by Cluster Random Sampling. The instrument used to collect the data was
multliple choice test. The result of reliability of the test calculated by Sudijono
(2009). It was found that the reliability was high so the test was reliable. The data
were analyzed by using ttest formula. The analysis shows that the scores of
students’ in experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of
students’ in control group at the level of significance (α=0.05) with the degree of
freedom (df) = 63, tobserved value 7.37 ≥ ttable 1.34. The findings indicate that
applying BDA Strategy had a significant effect on students’ reading
comprehension achievement in narrative text.
