THE INFLUENCE OF USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXT READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs MA’ARIF 20 EAST LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016

Marlindawati, Herna (2017) THE INFLUENCE OF USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXT READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs MA’ARIF 20 EAST LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

This research was conducted based on the phenomena taking place in school, it was many students were fond of reading a lot but they did not comprehend what they read. The technique that the teacher used to teach students was dull so that it made students felt bored to join the English lesson. Therefore, this thesis discussed the influence of directed reading thinking activity strategy in teaching reading, especially for students’ reading comprehension in recount text. The objective of the research was to find out whether there was influence of directed reading thinking activity technique towards students’ reading comprehension in recount text at the first semester of the eight grade at MTs Ma’arif 20 East Lampung in 2015/2016 academic year. In this research, the methodology of the research was quasi experimental design with the treatment held in 3 meetings, 2 x 35 minutes for each. The population of this research was the eight grade students of MTs Ma’arif 20 East Lampung. The sample taken was two classes, VIII B and VIII C which consisted of 60 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used the instruments in multiple-choice questions of recount text. After being tried-out, the instrument was used for the pre-test and the post-test. After giving the post-test, the writer then analyzed the data. From the data analysis, it was found that the result of t-test was 5.05. This result then was consulted to the score of tcritical (level of significance). In this case the level of significance 0.05 was 1.67-1.68. from the analysis, the score of tobserved was higher than tcritical (0.05) , so Ho was refused. In other words, from this research, it was known that directed reading thinking activity technique could improve the students’ reading ability in recount text. So, there was influence of directed reading thinking activity technique toward students’ reading ability in recount text at the first semester of the eight grade at MTs Ma’arif 20 East Lampung in 2015/2016 academic year. Key words: Reading Comprehension, Recount Text, Directed Reading Thinking Activity.

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