A Comparative Study Of Reading Comprehension Strategies Used By Good And Poor Readers At The Second Year Students Of MAN Model Palangka Raya

The study was aimed at investigating the difference of reading comprehension strategies between good and poor readers at the second year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya. It is because they have different score in their reading comprehension test. The study used quantitative comparative approach with Expost Facto design in finding out the answer of problem of the study. The population of the study consisted of seven classes at the second year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya. The total number of students was 224 students. The students were given reading comprehension test. Based on the test scores, they were selected into two groups namely, good readers that consists of 40 students and poor readers that consists of 40 students as the sample in order to be given questionnaire. The sample was determined by using purposive sampling technique. After getting the data of reading strategy questionnaire score, the writer analyzed the data using the independent t-test formula to test the hypothesis and to find the mean difference between good and poor readers. It was found that the result using SPSS 16 program calculation showed that for the first before reading-strategies, it was found the result of tobserved was -5.37 and the ttable was 2.04 at 5% of significance level with the degree of freedom (df) was 38. It showed that tobserved was greater than ttable. The second while reading-strategies, it was found the result of tobserved was -4.11. It was greater than ttable at 5% of significance level.The third after reading-strategies, it was found the result of tobserved was -3.24. It was also greater than ttable at 5% level of significance level. It means that there is difference of Reading comprehension strategies used between good and poor readers. The result of testing hypothesis determined that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) stated that there is significant difference of Reading Comprehension strategies used by good and poor readers at the second year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) stated that there is no significant difference rejected. In conclude, there is significant difference of Reading Comprehension strategies used by good and poor readers at the second year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya. Based on the result of the study, good readers used more strategies in their Reading Comprehension. For the poor readers, it is recommended to develop kinds of reading strategies in their learning of Reading Comprehensionactivities. The study suggests that reading strategies are important study for reading comprehensio