THE EFFECT OF USING MIND’S EYE STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 PEKANBARU

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students reading comprehension was not reach the standard score. This problem was caused by some factors. For example the way of teaching is not suitable to the material, the diificulties of text was too high. So, the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. The research was administered at SMAN 3 Pekanbaru. The subject of the research was the second year students , and the object of this research was the Effect of using Mind’s Eye strategy. The design of this research was Quasiexperimental design. The population of this research was all of the second year students. The total number of population was too large; eight classes and each class at least consist of 28 students, so the writer used cluster random sampling by taking two classes as sample; XI IPS.1 consisted of 32 students as experimental group, and XI IPS.2 consisted of 32 students as control group. To analyze the data, the writer adopted independent sample t-test formula by using SPSS 16 version. The main focus of this research was to find out whether or not there was significant difference between students’ reading comprehension taught by using Mind’s Eye strategy and by using conventional method at the second year studentsSenior High School 3Pekanbaru. Based on the data analysis, the writer concludes that there is significant difference between students’ reading comprehension taught by using mind’s eye strategy and students’ reading comprehension taught by using conventional method with consideration t0= 4.679 is higher than Ttableeither in significant 5% = 2.00 or in significant 1% = 2.65. We can read 2.002.65. It means Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between students’ reading comprehension by using mind’s eye strategy and students’ reading comprehension by using conventional method. In other words, there is a significant difference of using mind’s eye strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension at the second year students of Senior High School 3 Pekanbaru