The effect of reading activities on reading comprehension in narrative text at grade XI students of Yayasan Pendidikan Syeikh Muhamaad Baqi Babussalam Basilam Baru Tapanuli Selatan

This research focused on using of reading activities on reading comprehension in narrative next at the XI grade students of yayasan pendidikan syeikh muhammad baqi babussalam basilam baru. The problems of this research was students reading comprehension is low, The students are poor vocabulary and students have lack of reading motivation. The purpose of this research is to know whether there is the effect of reading activities on reading comprehension in narrative text at the XI grade students of yayasan pendidikan syekh muhammad baqi babussalam basilam baru. This research has formulation of the problems, is there any significant effect of reading activities on reading comprehension. The purpose of this research are to find out the students reading comprehension in narrative text before using reading activities, to find out the students reading comprehension in narrative text after using reading activities, and to examine whether there is effect of reading activities to students reading comprehension in narrative text is significant or not. The method that is used in this research use experimental research. Two classes were as the sample. They were XI-putri as experimental class that consisted of 17 students and XI-putra as control class that consisted of 17 students. It was 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 in pre-test was 73.98 and in the post-test was 89.76. the proof was15.78. then the mean score of control class in pre-test was 67.64 and in post test was 77.64. the proof was 10. The effect of pre-reading activities on reading comprehension in narrative text at grade XI students of yayasan pendidikan syeikh Muhammad baqi babussalam basilam baru was 4.02. where the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (4.02>2.49), it meant that Ha was accepted. It was concluded that there was significant effect of reading Activities on Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at Grade XI Students of yayasan pendidikan syiekh muhammad baqi babussalam basilam baru tapanuli selatan