The Effect Of Thieves (Title, Heading, Introduction, Every First Sentence, Visual, End Of The Text) Strategy On The Students' Abillity To Comprehend Reading Text At YP Al Masdar Batang Kuis

This research was intended to find out the empirical evidence of the students‟ ability to comprehend reading text by using THIEVES strategy at the eight grade of YP SMP Al-Masdar Batang Kuis. This research was experimental research. The population of this research was all of the students. The samples of this research were taken from 32 students of experimental group in class VIII 1 and 32 students of control group in class VIII 2. The instrument for collecting data was a test. After analyzing the data, the writer got; (1) The students‟ ability in reading comprehension by using THIEVES strategy got the mean 21,25 and standard deviation was 5,19; (2) The students‟ ability in reading comprehension by using conventional strategy got the mean 15,31 and standard deviation was 5,76. The value of t obs 59,4 and that of t 1,999. So the value t obs was higher that that t tab. tab It means that there was significant effect of using THIEVES strategy on the students‟ ability to comprehend reading text