The effect of gist strategy on reading narrative tex at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Batahan

This research focuses on the effect of GIST strategy on reading narrative text mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Batahan. The problems of students in reading comprehension were: 1) Most of the students’ score still got low. 2) Most of the students just read the text without trying to comprehend the text. 3) Before reading, most of the students have felt boring and stress. They did not interest to comprehend text because there is no variation in teaching learning English. The teacher still used conventional strategy in teaching reading. The purpose of this research is to know whether there is the effect of GIST strategy on reading narrative text mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Batahan. The method that is used in this research is experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI MIA- 1 as experimental class that consisted of 30 students and XI MIA-2 as control class that consisted of 30 students. It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre test and post test. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the mean score of experimental class after GIST strategy was higher than control class. Mean score of experimental class before using GIST strategy was 61.19 and mean score after using GIST strategy was 76.1 and it had gain 14.91. The effect of GIST strategy on students’ reading comprehension was 2.205 with tcount was higher than ttable (2.205 > 1.67155). It meant that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. So, there was effect of GIST strategy on reading narrative text mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Batahan