The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMA Serdang Murni Lubuk Pakam

Abstract

This study focused on finding out the effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMASerdang Murni buk Pakam. A Thesis.This study was conducted in experimental Quantitative design. The populationof this research was Tenth Grade of students in SMA Serdang Murni Lubuk Pakam . There were seventy six studentsof the tenth grade senior high school students as the sample of research. This study was conducted with tworandomized groups namely Experimental Group and Control Group. The experimental group was taught by usingSynthesizing Strategy, while control group was taught without Synthesizing Strategy. The instrument of collectingthe data was a multiple choice test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shown that t-observed(3.65) was higher than t-table (1.68) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. Itmeans that there was a significant effect of Synthesizing Strategy on students reading comprehension. So, the nullhypothesis (H0) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.