The effect of reciprocal teaching strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at grade IX of SMP N 5 Panyabungan

This research focused about the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text at grade IX of SMP N 5Panyabungan. The problems of this research were most of the students still got lowscore about 70 in English subject especially reading comprehension and the studentshad lack of reading interest and did not understand text well and also they wastedtime to get the meaning in dictionary; finally most of the students failed in readingcomprehension. The aim of this research was to examine the significant effect ofreciprocal teaching strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text atgrade IX of SMP N 5 Panyabungan.This research has been done by experimental research. The population of thisresearch was the grade IX of SMP N 5 Panyabungan. The total of population wereeight classes. Then, the sample was divided into two classes. The first class (twentytwo students) as the experimental class, while the second class (nineteen students) asthe control class. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring Students’Reading Comprehension. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test.Data analysis of the post-test showed that score of the students in theexperimental class was significantly higher than score of the students in the controlclass at the level of significance 5% with degree of freedom (n1 + n2 – 2) = 39. Meanscore was got in the experimental class is 73.09, highest score is 92 and smallestscore is 40. While, mean score was got in the control class is 63.78, highest score is88 and smallest score is 40. The tcount of observation is 2.75 while the ttable is 1.682.Therefore, the hypothesis was accepted. So, there was significant effect of ReciprocalTeaching Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at GradeIX of SMP N 5 Panyabungan