The Effect of Using Jumbled Text Toward Students' Reading Comprehension at Tenth Grade of SMAN 2 Ranah Batahan
ABSTRACT Annisa Dwinanda, 2318097. The Effect of Using Jumbled Text Toward Students Reading Comprehension at 10th Grade of SMAN 2 Ranah Batahan. A Thesis, State Islamic University (UIN) Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi. 2024 This research was due to the problems that were found in SMAN 2 Ranah Batahan. It was found that students were not interested in learning when the teacher gave long texts to students, the students’ reading score was low, and teacher did not apply many variations strategy in teaching reading. Based on the problem above the researcher interested to experiment the effect of jumbled text toward students’ reading comprehension The researcher used the quantitative research with experiment design. The researcher used purposive sampling in determining the sample where classes that are taught by the same teacher, has the same English proficiency, and has good engagement as the consideration. From this, X1 was used as the experiment group and X2 was used as the control group. The instrument was a reading comprehension test and the process of data analysis was done through SPSS in order to avoid human error. The results of the study showed that Jumbled text has effect toward students reading comprehension. This was proved by the result of t-test where t-test was bigger than t-obtained (8.774>1.711). Then, the experiment group, which received the jumbled text treatment, had better reading comprehension compared with control group was also proved by the result of t-test (3.158>1.711) and the means score also higher than the control class (61.8> 50.8). The findings of this study provide evidence that jumbled text can be a valuable tool for improving reading comprehension. The results of this study have significant implications for educators who are looking for innovative ways to improve reading comprehension.