The Effect of Using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Strategy on Writing and Reading Comprehension Ability at MAN 2 Pekanbaru

This research is aimed at finding out the effect of using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Strategy on writing and reading comprehension ability of MAN 2 Pekanbaru students. It is a Quasi-Experiment which focuses on Quantitative Research. The subjects of this study are 50 students from two tenth classes, each of which consists of 25 students. Its object is the effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Strategy on students’ writing and reading comprehension. The students' writing and reading comprehension were analyzed by using SPSS 20 and found that the mean score of reading comprehension of the students taught by using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) strategy was 80.98, and 78.10 for writing. In other words, the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) strategy was, to some extent, effective to increase the students’ writing and reading comprehension (81%) (88%) So, Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) strategy has an effect or influence on students' reading comprehension and writing ability. It proved to provide better results for teaching reading comprehension than for writing. Keywords: contextual teaching and learning (CTL), reading comprehension, writin