The effect of reciprocal teaching strategy to students’ reading comprehension at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about students’ problem in reading comprehension at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of the research are the students’ have low motivation, lack vocabulary, lack concentration, and uninterested teaching strategy. As the result, the students are difficult in reading comprehension. The aim of this research is to find out the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy to students’ reading comprehension at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 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 of reciprocal teaching strategy to students’ reading comprehension at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The resource of the data was random sampling, there were 52 students analytical unit from 319 students of grade VII SMP Negeri 5 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 ttest. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that, the mean score of experimental class higher than control class (74.96 > 73.65) and the score of t0 was bigger than tt (2.18 >1.67). It means that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy to Students’ reading comprehension at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Finally, the researcher suggested using reciprocal teaching strategy was effective to improve and to effect the reading comprehension