THE EFFECT OF PREDICTION STRATEGY ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of Prediction Strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. This study was conducted in experimental design. The population of this research was the first year students of SMA Swasta Masehi GBKP Berastagi. There were eighty students of first year senior high school as the sample of the research. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely Experimental and Control group. The experimental group was taught by applying Prediction Strategy while control group was taught by applying Lecturing Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data was multiple choice tests which consist of 50 items. To obtain the reliability of the test the researcher used Kuder - Richardson (KR – 21) formula. The calculation shows the reliability is 0.56 (moderate). The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The calculation shows that t-observed (3.96) is higher than t-table (1.99) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 78. It means that there is a significant effect of applying Prediction Strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. So the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.