The Effect of Partner Reading Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text at the Eleventh Grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tantom in 2022/2023 Academic Year

Abstrak

The purpose of this research is 1) To application of partner reading strategy on students reading comprehension of descriptive text. 2) The students’ ability in reading comprehension of descriptive text before and after using partner reading strategy at the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tantom. 3) There is any significant effect of partner reading strategy on students reading comprehension of descriptive text at the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tantom. This research used experimental method by using one-group pretest and posttest design. The population are 175 with sample 36 students of class XI-Busana by using purposive sampling. The instruments of this research are observation sheet and test. There is any significant effect of using partner reading strategy on students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text at the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tantom . By using Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test (SPSS 22) shows the sign score is less than 0,05 (0.000<0.05), and N- Gain = 0.542114.