THE INFLUENCE OF CLOSE READING STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON BIOGRAPHICAL RECOUNT TEXT OF THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE AT MA RAUDHOTUL JANNAH SIDOKERTO LAMPUNG TENGAH IN 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

RINTAN, NOVIA SAFITRI (2021) THE INFLUENCE OF CLOSE READING STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON BIOGRAPHICAL RECOUNT TEXT OF THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE AT MA RAUDHOTUL JANNAH SIDOKERTO LAMPUNG TENGAH IN 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is one of English skills that should be mastered by students. Through reading, the students are able to comprehend the material well and enlarge their knowledge. The students’ reading comprehension in MA Raudhotul Jannah Sidokerto Lampung Tengah is still low especially in reading biographical recount text. It is proven by their reading score. There were 57,14% of the students who got the score under 67 as the standard of minimum mastery (KKM) of Standard Competence (KD) in the eleventh grade of MA Raudhotul Jannah Sidokerto Lampung Tengah. By seeing this condition the Close Reading strategy was applied to improve their reading comprehension. Close Reading strategy is the teaching strategy that offers the students to reread the text several times and enables them to derive the purpose of text and have the evidence of the conclusion drawn from the text. The objective of this research is to know whether there is significant influence of using Close Reading strategy toward students’ reading comprehension on biographical recount text of the second semester of the eleventh grade at MA Raudhotul Jannah Sidokerto Lampung Tengah in 2020/2021 academic year. The research methodology was quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was the eleventh grade of MA Raudhotul Jannah Sidokerto. The sample of the research was two classes that consist of 27 students for experimental class and 25 students for control class. The Close Reading strategy was applied in the experimental class while Sustained Silent Reading was applied in the control class. The treatment was conducted in three meetings for experimental class. Multiple choice questions form was the instrument in collecting data that had been tried out before the pretest.The instrument was given in pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was given before the treatment to both classes, after conducting the treatment, the instrument was given in post-test. After the data had been collected, which were in normal distribution and their variances are homogeneous, they were analyzed by using SPSS 25 to compute independent sample t test. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS 25, it was resulted that Sig. was = .001 and . It can be derived that Ha is accepted because Sig..001< . According to the statement, it can be concluded that there is significant influence of using Close Reading strategy toward students’ reading comprehension on biographical recount text of the second semester of the eleventh grade at MA Raudhotul Jannah Sidokerto in 2020/2021 academic year. Key words: Close Reading, Reading Comprehension, Biographical Recount Text, Quasi- Experimental Design.

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