The Effect Of Using Read Cover Remember Retell (RCRR) Strategy Towards Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text In UPT SMP Negri 1 Padang Gelugur
ABSTRACT Nurhalimatussakdiah. NIM: 2318088, The Effect Of Using Read Cover Remember Retell Strategy Towards Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text In UPT SMP Negri 1 Padang Gelugur. A Thesis, State Of Islamic University Bukittinggi, 2023. This research was aimed at finding out the effect of using (RCRR) strategy towards student’s reading comprehension on narrative text at the ninth grade of UPT SMP Negri 1 Padang Gelugur. The rationality of this research was based on the students’ problems in reading comprehension. Firstly, the students’ achievements on reading comprehension narrative text was still low. Secondly, the students had difficulties on comprehending the gist and detailed information on narrative text. Thirdly, the students had lack of motivation in reading comprehension. This research employed quantitative method. In this research, the researcher used purposive sampling as a technique in taking sampling. The population of this research was the IX grade students at UPT SMP Negeri 1 Padang Gelugur. The research instrument of this research was reading test, which were tested for pre-test and post-test session. In this research, the researcher used descriptiveand inferential statistic to analyzed the data. The result of the research indicated that there was significant effect of using Read Cover Remember Retell (RCRR) strategy towards students’ redading comprehension. It can be seen from p-value which was smaller than the alpha value(0,0000,05). It is concluded that, using Read Cover Remember Retell (RCRR) strategy gave significant effect towardsstudents’ reading comprehension on narrative text.