THE INFLUENCE OF USING GENERATING INTERACTION BETWEEN SCHEMATA AND TEXT (GIST) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ READINGCOMPREHENSIONAT THE EIGHT GRADE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ABSTRACT The reading skill students at SMPN 2 Way Jepara, East Lampung were poor, especially in reading descriptive texts. To resolve this concern, the researcher presented the GIST (Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text) Strategy to help students improve their reading skills. Students can use the GIST strategy to discover important information and main ideas in a text, and they could schematize descriptive texts in their own language to make them easier to understand. This study used quantitative research with a pre-test and post-test. The design used was quasi-experimental while the technique was a random sampling technique. It was used to determine sample. A total of 63 students were sampled from 2 courses, VIII 1 and VIII 2. The data was collected by using a multiple choice test as an instrument. After giving the pre-test and post-tests, the researcher used SPSS to analyze the data and calculate the independent sample t-test. The independent t-test result was 0.020 with a significance of 0.05, according to the data analysis. The score of t-observed was higher than t-crucial (0.05) in the analysis, so H0 was rejected. It means that the GIST strategy has an influence on students' reading comprehension, especially in descriptive texts. So, in there is an Influence of employing the GIST strategy on students' reading comprehension of descriptive text. Keyword: GIST strategy, reading comprehension, quantitative researc