THE EFFECT OF USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY ON THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMA NEGERI 1 YOSOWILANGUN LUMAJANG

Abstract

This article presents research findings on the effect of using Directed Reading Thinking Activity on the tenth grade students' reading comprehension achievement at SMA Negeri 1 Yosowilangun Lumajang. The population of this research was all of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Yosowilangun in the 2014/2015 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling based on the result homogeneity test. The numbers of the respondents were 70 students, consisting of 36 students of grade X4 as the experimental group and 34 students of X8 as the control group. Reading comprehension test was conducted to get the main data of the research. The research data were analyzed by using independent sample T-Test (SPSS).The result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using Directed Reading Thinking Activity on the tenth grade students' reading comprehension achievement. It was proven by the value of the significant column in the t-test table that showed the value of 0.002 which is lower than 0.05. This means that the null hypothesis (H0) of this research was rejected. While the alternative hypothesis: DRTA strategy has a significant effect on the tenth grade students' reading comprehension achievement at SMA Negeri 1 Yosowilangun was accepted..