The Effect of Applying Metacognitive Strategy to Improve Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the effect of applying metacognitive strategy to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension on the eleventh grade students in SMA N 2 Pematangsiantar. It was quasi-experimental design which the populationof the research was all students on the eleventh grade in SMA N 2 Pematangsiantar. By using cluster random sampling technique, two classes werechosen as sample of the research, they were class XI PMIA 2 as experimental group and XI PMIA as control group.Itwasstarted with pre-test of both experimental and control group, treatment in experimental group and last conducted post-test of both groups. The instrument of the research was reading comprehension test which was multiple choice tests and consisted of 30 question items. The validity and reliability of test wereanalyzed by using SPSS 22. The last result was independent sample t-test to analyze whether there is effect of applying metacognitive strategy to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension or not. After doing research, the result of post-test mean of experimental group is 80.28 with standard deviation is 10.355 and post-test mean of control group is 67.63 with standard deviation is 8.353. From the post-test result, it stated that sample was distributed normally and had homogeneous variance. With the degree of freedom (df) is 78 and level of significance is 5 % (0.05), from t-test result which is higher than t-table, where value of is 6.013 > is 1.665, it can be concluded that there is significant effect of applying metacognitive strategy to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension on the eleventh grade students ofSMA N 2 Pematangsiantar.