The Effect of Whatsapp Towards the Third Year Students Reading Comprehension At SMP IT Aziziyyah Pekanbaru

Key Words : Students Reading Comprehension, Whatsapp, Narrative Text. The purpose of this research is to find out students reading comprehension in learning reading and to know how Whatsapp social media supports their Reading Skills. The reseacrher expected that the students would be able to understand what they read. By reading, students are expected to be able to answer questions consisting of text and students can understand the meaning in the text as a whole. This research was an Experimental research. The subject of this research is the third grade students of SMP IT Aziziyyah Pekanbaru, the research was conducted on 6 until 4 th December 2019. The sample of the research was divided two groups, the first group was an experiment group, it consisted of 25 students. in order to explore the resesarch data, the research applied reading test to the sample in experimental and control group. In this case the reseacrher used reading test : they are pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS to support the data. The result of the study in pre-test showed that students reading of effort text in experimental class there were 1 students stayed in very low level and there were 7 students in good level. However in post-test of experimental class, there was 14 students can reach good level, 11 students in very good level, and 0 students in low and very low level. From the result above, it can be conclude the students had imprevement in reading comprehension, it was proved by students total score had imprevement after treatment using social media Whatsapp