Abstract:
The objective of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of using
predicting strategy to teach reading narrative text to the tenth grade of SMK N 1
Purworejo It is expected that the result of the study will provide a deeper
understanding about using predicting strategy as a teaching strategy for English
teachers and also for the readers. The researcher used pre-experimental research
as a research design. The researcher took 32 students as samples; using purposive
sampling. The researcher gave pre-test and post-test to the class. The researcher
taught narrative text by using predicting strategy. The researcher then statistically
analyzed the data.
After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching narrative
text by using predicting strategy is effective for teaching reading comprehension
narrative text. As the fact, the effectiveness using predicting strategy for teaching
reading comprehension of the tenth grade at SMK N 1 Purworejo in the academic
year 2015/2015 is effective. It can be seen from the mean score of pre-test 62.93
and the mean of post-test 73.43. It shows that the t-value is higher than t-table
with df (32-1), it is (4.42>2.04). It means that the predicting strategy used by the
researcher is effective for reading comprehension narrative text of the tenth grade
students of SMK N 1 Purworejo. Therefore, the researcher’s hypothesis with 0.95
or 95% of significance level is accepted and consequently null hypothesis (Ho) is
rejected.
