The Effect of PLAN (Plan, Locate, Add and Note) Strategies on Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension

This study focused on finding out the effect of
Predict, Locate, Add and Note (PLAN) Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension at Madrasah Aliyah
Swasta (MAS) Al Washliyah Tembung. This study was
conducted in experimental Quantitative design. The population of the study was the students in grade XI of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Al Washliyah Tembung of 2019/2020 acedemic year. The total number of population in this study was 110 students. There were two classes consists of each 38 students were chosen as sample by purposive sampling technique. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely Experimental Group and Control Group. The experimental group was taught by using PLAN Strategy, while control group was taught without PLAN Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data were questionnaire and the multiplechoice test of
analytical exposition. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shown that t-observed (3.65) was higher than t-table (1.67) at the level of significance (α) 0.05. It means that there was a significant effect of PLAN Strategy on students’ achievement in reading comprehension. So, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected
and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.