TEACHING EXPOSITORY READING TEXT BY USING ABOUT/POINT STRATEGY TO THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NU PALEMBANG

The objectives of the study are to find out whether or not there is a significant improvement before and after the treatment on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension scores of SMA NU Palembang by using About/Point strategy and to find out whether or not there is a significant difference on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension score of SMA NU Palembang between the students who are taught by using About/Point strategy and those who are not. In this study, I used quasi experimental design using pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design. There were 64 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 32 students from class XI IPS 2 as experimental group and class XI IPS 1 as control group. In collecting the data, test was used. The test was given twice to experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hypothesis, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS program. The finding showed that the p-output from paired sample t-test (sig2- tailed) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 6.825 was higher than t- table with df=31 (2.0395). the result p-output independent sample t-test was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 4.659 was higher than t-table with df=62 (1.9990). it means that teaching reading hortatory exposition text by using About/Point strategy had significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension scores. Keyword: Reading expository, About/Point Strategy