The Effectiveness of Using DR-TA Strategy in Teaching Reading Recount Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Petanahan in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The aim of this research is to describe whether Directed Reading Thinking-Activity (DR-TA) strategy is effective or not in teaching reading Recount text at the tenth grade students of SMANegeri 1 Petanahan in the Academic year of 2015/2016. The type of the research is quantitative research with quasi experimental as the design. The population of the research is the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Petanahan in the academic year of 2015/2016.The sample is 60 students.Sample is taken using purposive sampling technique. The independent variable of the research is using DR-TA strategy and the dependent variable of the research is the students’ reading recount text ability. The instrument that is used to get the data is multiple choice test. The techniques of analyzing the data are descriptive statistics in finding mean, standard deviation, mode, median, variance; and inferential analysis is used normality test, test of homogeneity and t-test as hypothesis The results of the computation are the mean of the students’ reading recount text ability in post-test of experimental group is 84.13 and it is categorized as excellent. Meanwhile, the mean of the students’ reading recount text ability in post-test of control group is 73.70 and it is categorized good. The value of the computation of t-test is 6.327 and t-table is 2.000. The computation shows that tvalue is higher than t-table (6.327>2.000). So, it can be stated that the hypothesis “Using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DR-TA) strategy in teaching reading recount text at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Petanahan in the academic year of 2015/2016 is effective” is accepted.