THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SQ3R AND DRTA STRATEGIES IN STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION AT DARMA NUSANTARA VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL PANDEGLANG

Abstract

This study was conducted to see the effectiveness of reading strategies in reading comprehension of the students of Darma Nusantara Vocational High School Pandeglang through SQ3R and DRTA strategies. The subjects of the study were X Adper and X TKJ students of Darma Nusantara Vocational High School Pandeglang of the 2017/2018 academic year. This study was implemented to 28 students class experiment and it was conducted in two cycles where each cycle consisted of four meetings for the teaching and learning process and a meeting for a test. The instruments used to collect the data were reading comprehension tests (multiple choices) . The data taken from the two tests were analyzed and presented quantitatively. Meanwhile, the data derived from pretest and posttest were analyzed and presented quantitatively. Based on the findings, these strategies showed the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension; it was indicated by both the increasing mean score. The differences mean between two classes is-24.357, t-count = -29.734 and t-table (1.673; 55), with sig. (2 tailed) = 0.000. It indicates that two strategies; SQ3R and DRTA produced different reading comprehension achievement. T test shows that t-count is greater than t-table. Shortly, it can be concluded that the null hypothesis is rejected. It can be seen based on the calculation; it reveals that is different result of the means. The mean of SQ3R class is higher than DRTA class. It means that SQ3R produced better improvement than DRTA.