THE EFFECT OF USING SENSORY IMAGES STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF STATE ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL RANAH KAMPAR

of using sensory images strategy on reading comprehension at the second year students of State Islamic Junior High School Ranah Kampar. The subject of this research was the second year students of State Islamic Junior High School Ranah Kampar. The second year students consisted of two classes (60 students). The writer took VIII A and VIII B (60 students) as the sample of the research. The way in choosing this sample was cluster technique. The instruments of this research were observation and test. The observation was used to know implementation of sensory images strategy applied in the class and test was used to get data of the students’ reading comprehension. Whereas, to analyze the data, the writer used anova. The formula was: RKd RKa F Based on the writer’s findings, the score of students’ reading comprehension at the second year of State Islamic Junior High School Ranah Kampar in pre-test of experimental class was 1795 with average was 59.8 and can be categorized poor to average and in the post-test (after teaching using sensory image) was 2320 with average was 77.3 and could be categorized average to good. While, pre-test of control class was 1635 with average was 54.5 and can be categorized poor to average. While in the post-test was 1850 with average was 61.7 and could be categorized average to good. Finally, after analyzing, it can be known that calculated t was 24.677. calculated t was turned to f distribution tabel. It was found that distributi on f at 5% was 4.00 and 1% was 7.08. It could be concluded that calculated t > distributi on f (24.677>7.08>4.00).. This indicated that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected. In other words, if the value of t-calculated was smaller than the value of t-table, this indicated that null was accepted and alternative hypothesis was rejected. In short, there is any significant effect of using sensory images strategy on reading comprehension at the second year students of State Islamic Junior High School Ranah Kampar