THE EFFECT OF USING PARAGRAPH SHRINKING STRATEGY TOWARDS READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF JUNIOR BOARDING SCHOOL BABUSSALAM PEKANBARU

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students could not comprehend the meaning of the text in their text book at the school. This problem was caused by some factors. For example some of the student had difficulties finding the main idea in the reading text and had difficulties comprehending the text given meaningfully. So, the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. Paragraph Shrinking Strategy is designed to developed comprehension through summarization and main idea identification of a paragraph or short section of text. It is one of the good strategies that should be considered by the teacher to be applied in the process of teaching and learning English, especially in reading subject to increase students’ reading comprehension. The research was administered at Junior Boarding School Babussalam Pekanbaru. The subject was the second year students of Junior Boarding School Babussalam Pekanbaru, and the object of this research was the effect of using Paragraph Shrinking Strategy towards in Reading Comprehension at the Second Year Students’ of Junior Boarding School Babussalam Pekanbaru. The design of this research was Quasi-Experimental design. The population of this research was the entire second year student. The total number of population was 173 students. Because the number of population was large, the writer used Cluster sampling by taking two classes only as sample: VIIID consisted of 28 students as experimental group and VIIIE consisted of 28 students as control group, so the number of the sample from two classes was 56. To analyze the data, the writer adopted independent sample t-test formula by using software SPSS 16. Based on the data analysis, the writer concluded that there was a significant effect of Using Paragraph Shrinking Strategy towards Reading Comprehension at the Second Year Students’ of Junior Boarding School Babussalam Pekanbaru with consideration to = 3.651 is higher than T-table either in significant 5 %; = 2.02 or in significant 1 % = 2.72. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, which shows 2.02 2.72