IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION USING PROBABLE PASSAGE STRATEGY TO THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH AL-ISLAM) KEMUJA

Abstract

The main purposes of this thesis is to know the implementation of Probable Passage strategy in improving readingcomprehension and to know whether any significant difference or not in improving readingcomprehension of the students who were taught by using Probable Passage strategy. In this thesis the researcher used quantitative approach with quasi-experimental design. The population of the study was all of the eighth grade students of MTs Al-Islam Kemuja that consists of 214 students, while the samples of the research were 65students. There are two research findings in this research. First, there is a significant difference in reading narrative text achievement before and after using Probable Passage strategy. From the result of the paired sample t-test, it was proved that the mean of post-test experimental group (68.71), was higher than pre-test (41.00).The result of t-obtained was 24.4 higher than8.40of the critical value of t-table (at the significant level 0.05in two tailed testing degree of freedom 33). In addition, there was a significant difference experimental group and control group. It showed that from the difference analysis on post-test of experimental and control group. It could be seen from the result of the independent samples t-test. It wasfound that p-output was 0.000 for sig. (2-tailed). Since the p-output value was lower than 0.05. Thus, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the research hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.In other words, there was a significant difference in reading achievement between students’ who were taught by Probable Passage strategy and those who were not. Therefore, Probable Passage strategy was one strategy that could influence students’ reading comprehension achievement