A Comparative Study on the Effect of the Use of
Magnet Summary Strategy and Herringbone Strategy
on Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMK Kansai
Pekanbaru
This research was aimed to compare the effects of using Magnet Summary
strategy and Herringbone strategy on students’ reading comprehension at SMK
Kansai Pekanbaru. The research design was a quasi-experiment focusing on
experimental comparison design. The subject of the study was second year
students of SMK Kansai Pekanbaru in the academic year 2016/2017 and the
object was class XI TI 1 and class XI TI 2 c. The sample was taken by using
cluster sampling technique. Two classes of both experimental groups consisting of
fifty students were given a pre-test and a post-test. To analyze the data,
independent t-test and paired sample t-test were used and calculated by SPSS
version 20. The results of the analysis showed that there was a significant
difference of students’ reading comprehension of report texts after being taught
Magnet Summary and Herringbone strategy. Magnet Summary strategy had the
effect size or eta-squared of about 44.50% while Herringbone strategy had the
effect size or eta-squared of about 48.65%. In conclusion, Herringbone strategy
had highest effect compared to Magnet Summary strategy on students’ reading
comprehension
