THE INFLUENCE OF RAP STRATEGY ON STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION IN SMA PAWYATAN DAHA KEDIRI ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
Author (Penulis)
FRAGANANTHA RIZHAL Y.P.
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
13.1.01.08.0122
Abstract
Reading is one of important skills in learning English. The goal of reading is comprehension.
The students cannot achieve their academic success without comprehending what they read. In fact,
senior high school students still found difficulties in comprehending the English text. In order to help
the students get the better comprehension of the text, the researcher proposed Read Ask Paraphrase
strategy that can be used in teaching reading especially narrative text. The problems of this research
are (1) Is there any significant influence of RAP on students’ Reading Comprehension of SMA
Pawyatan Daha Kediri in the academic year 2016/2017? This research is a quantitative and use
experimental design. This research was carried out in SMA Pawyatan Daha Kediri. The researcher
chose eleventh grade students. In collecting the data, the researcher observed by using pretest,
treatment and posttest. Then data is analyzed using T-test. The sample of the research was class XI
IPA 1 consisting of 32 students. This research was held in two meetings involved pre-test, treatment,
and post-test. After collecting the data, the next step was analyzing them by using SPSS VS 21 to
know the influence of teaching reading comprehension using Read Ask Paraphrase. The result of post
test showed the students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught influence Read Ask
Paraphrase strategy. It was proven by the mean after being taught influence Read Ask Paraphrase
strategy (87,81) was higher than the mean score before being taught influence Read Ask Paraphrase
strategy (79,69). The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table (7,588> 2,039) it means that
Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. It can be concluded that Read Ask Paraphrase was influence on
students’ reading comprehension. The researcher suggest to the English Teacher should teach the
students using Read Ask Paraphrase because it was suitable technique which makes the students more
easy to comprehend the text such us find of the topic of the text, the main idea of the text, the specific
information of the text, the detailed information, the explicit information of the text, the implicit
information of the text, the reference of words and the meaning of the words