THE EFFECT OF TRANSACTIONAL STRATEGIES INSTRUCTION (TSI) ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION

This study was aimed to find out the effect of Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI) on students reading comprehension. This study used the experimental design. The population of this study was the students of SMA NEGERI 1 TANJUNG BERINGIN. There were sixty students of second grade senior high school as the sample of the research. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental and control group. The control group was taught by conventional method while experimental group was taught by TSI. The instrument of collecting data was objective multiple choice test which consists of 40 items. To obtain the reliability of the test, the researcher used Kuder-Richardson (KR-21) formula. The calculation shows the reliability was 0.81 (high). The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shows that t-observed (5.00) is higher than t-table (2.000) at the level of significance (∝) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. Therefore, null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that teaching reading comprehension by using TSI has more significant effect than that without using TSI.