THE EFFECT OF USING PREDICT,LOCATE,ADD,NOTE (PLAN) STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF ARGUMENTATIVE TEXTS

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of using Predict,Locate,Add,Note (PLAN)
Strategy on the Students’ Reading Comprehension of Argumentative Texts. This study ased
the experimental design. The population of this study was the students of SMA Negeri 14
Medan. There were sixty students as the sample of research. This study was conductedwith
two randomized group. Namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was
taught by Predict,Locate,Add,Note (PLAN) Strategy while control group was taught without
Predict,Locate,Add,Note (PLAN) Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data was
multiple choice test which consists of 25 items. To obtain the reliability of the test, the
researcher used Kuder Richardson (KR-20) formula. The calculation shows the reliability is
0.83 (very high). The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation show that tobserved
(6.5) is higher than t-table (2.00) at the evel of significance (x)0.05 with the degree
of freedom (df) 58. Therefore, the null hyphothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative
hyphotesis(Ha) is accepted. It means that teaching reading comprehension of argumentative
texts by Predict, Locate, Add, Note (Plan) Strategy has more significant effect than teaching
reading comprehension of argumentative texts without Predict, Locate, Add, Note (PLAN)
Strategy.