THE EFFECT OF RECIPROCAL TEACHING STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING ABILITY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN RAMBAH HILIR DISTRICT ROKAN HULU REGENCY

Abstract

Based on the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the students at SMAN 1 Rambah Hilir and SMAN 3 Rambah Hilir werelow score and not interested reading  class.  The  students  tendedto  be  passive  inlearning process.  Their  reading  comprehension  mastery  was  low  and  they  needed  a long time to understand  a reading text, even short text. The purpose of this study  was  to  find  out  the  effect  of  reciprocal  teaching  strategy  toward students‟  motivation  and  their  reading  ability  at  senior  high  school  in Rambah Hilir District Rokan Hulu regency. The design of this research was a  quasi-experimental  research  with  pre-test  and  post-test  procedure.  The data were collected through test and questionnaire. The total population was 61  students‟  of  SMA  Negeri  1  Rambah  Hilir  and  41  students‟  of  SMA Negeri 3 Rambah Hilir. This research applied a random sampling technique to get samples. Then, the data were analyzed by using t-test method to find out  whether  there  is  significant  difference  between  the  experimental  group taught by using Reciprocal teaching strategy as a treatment, and the control group  taught  conventionally.  The  research  result,  the  writer  found  that significant probabilities was higher than 0.05 (> 0.05) in both paired sample t-test  and  independent  sample  t-test,  it  meantthat  there  is  significant different  on  students  reading  comprehension  in  pre-test  both  classes  and  in post-test  of  both  classes,  and  there  is  significant  different  on  students‟ motivation  before  and  after  treatment  of  experimental  class.    Besides,  the value of eta square of students‟ was 0.97 at SMAN 1 Rambah Hilir and 0.96 at  SMAN  3  Rambah  Hilir.  It  showed  it gave  significant  effect  toward students‟ motivation and their reading ability