TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE READING BY USING TPRC (THINK, PREDICT, READ, CONNECT) STRATEGY TO THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 7 PALEMBANG

The objectives of the study were to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement on the seventh grade students’ descriptive reading achievement who were taught by using TPRC strategy at SMPN 7 Palembang before and after the treatement and to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the seventh grade students’ descriptive reading achievement between the students who were taught by using TPRC strategy and those who are not at SMPN 7 Palembang. In this study, the researcher used Quasi Experimental degisn using pretest - posttest nonequvalent group design. There were 64 students taken as the sample. In collecting the data, the test was used. The test was multiple choice test that consisted of 40 items. The test was given twice to both control and experimental groups as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hypotheses, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS program. The findings showed that the p-output from paired sample t-test (sig2-tailed) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 9.440 was higher than t-table with df=31 (2.0395). The result of p-output from independent sample t-test was 0.029 which was lower than 0.05 level and t-value 2.240 was higher than t-table with df=62 (1.9990). Therefore, It means that teaching descriptive reading by using TPRC strategy had significant improvement and showed significant difference on the students’ reading comprehension score.