THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CHUNKING A TEXT STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT MTS MUJAHIDIN NGADILUWIH KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

ABSTRACT Aida, Riva Atul Nur. Student Registered Number. 17203153057. 2019. The Effectiveness of Using Chunking a Text Strategy Towards Students’ Reading Comprehension in Recount Text of The Second Grade Students at MTs Mujahidin Ngadiluwih Kediri in academic year 2018/2019. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Muh. Basuni M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Reading comprehension, Recount text, Chunking a text. Reading as a receptive skill has connection with comprehension to help students in understanding whole information and ideas from the passages. It also gains the interaction between reader and author. Therefore, to help students interested in comprehending recount text like understanding whole information of a text than understanding for each word, the use chunking a text strategy give a contribution to improve student’ reading comprehension. The formulation of the research was: Is there any significant differences on students’ reading comprehension in recount text before and after taught using chunking a text strategy?. Based on the formulation of research problem, the purpose of this research problem was: to determine whether thereis signifficant differences on students’ reading comprehension in recount text before and after taught using chunking a text strategy. The research design of this study was pre-experimental reseach with quantitative approach. The population of this research was the second grade of students at MTs Mujahidin Ngadiluwih Kediri which consist of 90 students. The sample of this research was B class consist of14 male and 16 female students. The research instrument was reading comprehension test which is in the form of multiple choices that consist of 20 questions. To measure the data analysis of pre test and post-tes was using Paired sample T-test with IBM SPSS 16.0. The result showed that the mean of students’ score before being taught by using chunking a text strategy was 63.50 and the students’ mean after being taught by using chunking a text strategy improved to be 80.50. In addition, the result of statistical computation used T-test with IBM SPSS 16.0, showed that the signifficance value was 0.00. It meant that signifficance value was lower than signifficance level (0.00