The Effect Of Inquiry Based Learning Towards Students Reading Comprehension At SMP YLPI Marpoyan Pekanbaru

The purposes of this research is to know whether there is significant effect of inquiry based learning towards students’ reading comprehension. The researcher used descriptive text and expected this would be able improve students’ reading comprehension and can considered the components of descriptive text. This research was an experimental research which was consisting of one experimental group. The population was all of the students in SMP YLPI MARPOYAN Pekanbaru. The researcher involved 22 students of the eighth grade of SMP YLPI MARPOYAN Pekanbaru. The research instrument was reading test. The result showed that there is significant effect of the main score before pre-test and post-test. In pre-test the mean score was 50,00 and the mean score of post-test was 75,45. While standard deviation 8,7 and 7,0. Then degree of freedom was 22. It could be seen that tcalculated (to) was 13,096, while t-table (tt) on the level significant 5% is 2,080. It can be read 13,096 > 2,080. It means that t-calculated (to) was higher than t-table (tt). Furthermore, based on the table, it could be seen that the significant value was 0,000 and it was lower than a level significant 5% (0,05). It means that 0,000 < 0,05 and it means null hypothesis was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted. In other word, there was a significant effect of inquiry based learning towards students’ reading comprehension at SMP YLPI MARPOYAN Pekanbar