THE INFLUENCE OF EXTENSIVE READING APPROACH ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR PRIVATE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TIGAMA PEKANBARU

There are some reasons why the students are hard to get information from reading text. First, there are some students feel bored, tired, and confused if the teacher gives them reading subject. It’s caused by the students’ lack of background knowledge, low motivation in reading, uninterested in title, and does no meaning of the vocabularies. Therefore, the students cannot identify the reading text and they also confuse in finding the meaning of words and sentences of the text. Second, the teachers do not use a suitable reading approach to solve the problem. It influences on the students reading comprehension. The writer intends to know the influences of this approach on improving reading comprehension by carrying out a research entitled The Influences of Extensive Reading Approach on Students Reading Comprehension at the Second Year Students of Private Vocational High School Tigama Pekanbaru The subject of this research was the second year students of Private Vocational High School Tigama Pekanbaru, and the object was the use extensive reading approach and students’ reading comprehension at the Private Vocational High School Tigama Pekanbaru. The population of this research was the second year students of Private Vocational High School Tigama Pekanbaru. There were two classes of the second year students with the number of population 76 students. Because of this research needed two groups, the writer took all classes: APH 1 (Control) and APH 2 (Experimental). The total of sample was 76 students. The instruments in this research the writer used observation and test then to get result, the writer used on SPSS 16.0 for window. After analyzed the data, the writer found: 1. Mean score of experimental class after having treatment was (69.4737), categorized into Good 2. Mean score of control class of conventional approach was (64.10), categorized into Enough Based on the data analysis, the writer concludes that the second hypothesis is accepted because T-table at the 5% grade of significance refers to 2.02. While, in the level of significance 1% is 2.72. Therefore, it can be analyzed that to is higher than t table in either at 5% or 1% grade of significance. It can be read that (2.02 10.683 2.72).It means that there is significant Influence of extensive reading approach on students’ reading comprehension at the second year Private Vocational High School Tigama Pekanbaru. Regarding on the result above, Ha is accepted, and Ho is rejected