The effect of determining main ideas strategy on students` reading comprehension

This research is focused on the effect of Determining Main Ideas strategy on students` reading comprehension. The problems of this research were that most of students get low achievement in reading comprehension, students having lack of motivation in reading, also students did not have good reading strategies, they just read a text without comprehending. The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of Determining Main Ideas strategy on students` reading comprehension.This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was the eighth grade of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The total population were thirteen classes. Then, the sample of the research was two classes, experiment class (VIII-5) and control class (VIII-6). It was taken randomly after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ reading comprehension. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the result of experimental class was higher than control class (81.15>65), and the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (32.35 > 2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the significant effect of Determining Main Ideas strategy on students` reading comprehension at grade VIII of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan