THE EFFECT OF USING CONTEXTUAL GUESSING TECHNIQUE ON READING COMPREHENSION OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MULTI MEKANIK MASMUR PEKANBARU

The objectives of this research were to find out whether the students’ reading comprehension taught by using Contextual Guessing Technique is better than those without being taught by using Contextual Guessing Technique, and to find out whether there is any significant difference between students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text taught and without being taught by using Contextual Guessing Technique. This research was an Experimental Research. The design was a quasi experimental research. The writer formulated the problems that would be answered by using the quantitative research. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students at Vocational High School Multi Mekanik Masmur Pekanbaru. The object of the research was Contextual Guessing Technique on reading comprehension. The writer took two classes, experimental and control. Experimental class consisted of 31 students in it, and control class consisted of 31 students in it. The data were collected by using multiple choice test. The result of this research was; first, (Ho) was rejected and (Ha) was accepted (79.84> 65.00) or students who participated in Contextual Guessing Technique class had better reading comprehension than the students who participated in conventional class. Second, 0.00 was smaller than 0.05. (Ho) was rejected, and (Ha) was accepted which showed Ho: 0.00 > 0.05 and Ha : 0.00 < 0.05. In other words, there was a significant difference between using and without using Contextual Guessing Technique. From the result, it can be concluded that teaching reading by using Contextual Guessing Technique gave large effect to reading comprehension of the students at Vocational High School Multi Mekanik Masmur Pekanbaru. Key words: Effect, Contextual Guessing Technique, Reading comprehensio