The effect of peer tutoring strategy on students' reading comprehension at grade X SMA NEGERI 8 Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about students’ problems in reading comprehension at grade X SMA Negeri 8Padangsidimpuan. The problems are students got difficult to recognize main idea, topic, and the generic structure of some text types. Also, the students still lack of vocabularies related to the topic of the text that would be read. As the result, the students are difficult in reading comprehension. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of peer tutoring strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. The method of this research was conducted by experimental method with quantitative approach. Experimental method is used to test hypotheses and to see the effect ofpeer tutoring strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. The resource of the data was cluster sampling, there were 52 students analytical unit from 105 students of grade X SMA Negeri8 Padangsidimpuan. Collecting the data researcher was done the instrument test for the students about reading comprehension. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation of t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that,the mean score in post-test of experimental class higher than control class (82.12>75.76) and the score of t0 was bigger than tt (2.28>2.021). It means that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of peer tutoring strategy on Students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMA Negeri 8Padangsidimpuan. Finally, the researcher suggested using peer tutoring strategy was effective to increase students’ reading comprehension