The effect of small group discussion strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan

This research concerned about the effect of Small Group Discussion Strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. There were some problems found: 1) The students got difficulties in comprehending the text, 2) The students still got difficulties in interpreting words and some important aspects such as: main idea, generic structure and specific language features, 3) The students were less active participating in the learning process. The kind of this research was experimental research. The population of this research was all of the tenth grade of SMK S Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were 112 students. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, XA as experimental class that consist of 26 students and XB as control class that consist of 26 students. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. Based on the calculation of t-test, the researcher found that tcount = 4.18 and ttable = 1.67591. It means tcount> ttable (4.18 >1.67591). So, the researcher could concluded that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. There was the significant effect of using Small Group Discussion Strategy on student’s reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan