Pengaruh penggunaan strategi paragraf shrinking terhadap pemahaman membaca siswa dalam teks narrative teks di kelas 9 di MTS Koto Tinggi
RARA VANESIA. NIM : 2318057, The Effect Of Using Paragraph Shrinking Strategy Toward Students Reading Comprehension In Narrative Text At Ninth Grade Of MTS Koto Tinggi. A Thesis, State Of Islamic University Bukittinggi, 2022. This research was done to find out the effect of using paragraph shrinking strategy toward student’s reading comprehension in Narrative Text at the Ninth grade of MTS Koto Tinggi. The background of this research was based on the student’s problems in reading comprehension when learning English. First, the students cannot find main idea and identify important information in the text. Second, the students are lazy to read and comprehend because students do not know the meaning of the vocabulary in the text. Third, some students are not able to comprehend the narrative text. In this research, the researcher used quantitative method with quasi-experimental research design by comparing two classes. The population of this research was the 9th grade students at MTS Koto Tinggi, namely IX B as experimental class with consist 15 students and IX C as control class with consist 15 students. The instrument of this research was reading test. The data was analyzed by using independent sample T-test in SPSS 22. The result of the research indicated that there was significant effect of students reading comprehension between the students who were taught by using paragraph shrinking strategy and without using paragraph shrinking. It can be seen from p-value which was smaller than the alpha value (0,0000,05). From the result of the data, it can be concluded that, using paragraph shrinking strategy gave significant effect of toward students reading comprehension in narrative text .