THE EFFECT OF TEACHING STRATEGIES AND LEARNING STYLES ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION

The objectives of this experimental research were to find out whether: 1) students’ achievement in reading comprehension taught by using Advance Organizer Strategy was higher than taught by using Question-Answer Relationship Strategy, 2) students’ achievement in reading comprehension with visual style was better than that students with auditory style, 3) there was interaction between teaching strategies and learning styles on students’ achievement in reading comprehension.The population of this research was the students in grade VII of SMP Nurul Islam Indonesia Baru Medan in 2013/2014 school year. The total number of population of thisresearch was 154 students. There were 4 classes and two classes were choosen as sample. The two classes consist of 35 students,so 70 students were selected as sample of this research by applying cluster random sampling. The research design was experimental research by using factorial design 2x2. The VII-1 was taught by using Advance Organizer and VII-4 was taught by using Question-Answer Relationship Strategy. The questioner was administrated for classifying the students upon the visual and auditory learning style. Students’ achievement in reading comprehension text was measure by using reading comprehension test. The data were analyzed by applying two-way analysis of varience (ANOVA) at the level of significance α = 0.05. The result of the data analysis proved that; 1) students’ achievement in reading comprehension taught by using Advance Organizer Strategy was higher than taught by using Question-Answer Relationship Strategy, with 10.91 > 0.05, 2) students’ achievement in reading comprehension with visual style was better than that students with auditory style, with 3.38 > 0.05, 3) there was interaction between teaching strategies and learning styles on students’ achievement in reading comprehension, with 76.99 > 0.05. Moreover, Tuckey-test result also showed that visual style students got better achievement if they were taught by using Advance Organizer Strategy while auditory style students got better achievement if they were taught by using Question-Answer Relationship Strategy.