THE EFFECT OF REAP (REAP, ENCODE, ANNOTATE, PONDER) STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

The objective of the research is to find out the significant effect of REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder) Strategy towards students’ reading comprehension of recount text at grade X of SMA Swasta Alma’shum Sidodadi in 2022/2023 academic year. This type of research was experimental research design. The population of this research is the students of grade X. The sample of this research were X3 and X4 which were taken by cluster random sampling. The class X3 as experimental group taught by REAP Strategy and X4 as control group taught by conventional way. The study findings demonstrate that the experimental group's reading comprehension score for recount texts was higher than that of the control group. Based on the calculation of the t-test is the score of product moment degree of freedom (df) N1+N2-2 or 17+17-2 = 32, the critical value of the t-table with a significant 0,05 is 0,349 and the t-test is 11,03 the research concludes that t-test > t-table and the research had been succefull (H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted).
Key words: REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder) Strategy, Recount Text, Reading Comprehension