Abstract:
The research deals with the effect of using Read-Examine-Decide-Write (REDW)
strategy on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension. The population
of this research was the second years students of SMP Imelda Medan academic
year 2016-2017 who consisted of 124 students. And the sample was taken 62
students. They were devided into two groups, 30 students for experimental group
and 32 students for control group. The experimental group was taught by using
REDW strategy, while the control group was applied by traditional method. 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, to was higher than tt (4.12 > 1,99 )
and the hypothesis was accepted. It means that the students who were taught by
using REDW strategy was better than those who were taught by traditional
method.
