THE INFLUENCE OF USING SYNTAX SURGERY TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMK GAJAH MADA BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017

Abstract

One of the most important skills in English is reading. It is often considered as the most difficult skill by the students. Some strategies were needed by the teacher to overcome that problem. One of the techniques is Syntax Surgery. The objective of research is to know whether there is significant influence of using Syntax Surger towards reading comprehension in descriptive text at the second semester of the tenth grade of SMK Gajah Mada Bandar Lampung in the academic uear of 2016/2017 or not. The design of this research was quasi experimental design. The population was the students of SMK Gajah Mada Bandar Lampung at the tenth grade. The writer chose the sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The writer got X TKJ.1 as the experimental class and X AP.1 as the control class. In collecting the data, the writer used instrument in multiple choice question form. After being tried out, the instrument was used for the pretest and post test. To analyze the data, the writer used independent sample t-test. From the data analysis, it was found out that result of Sig (Pvalue) = 0.010 < α =0/05. It means that Ha was accepted. In other words, it it known that Syntax Surgery can influence the students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text. It can be concluded that there is sigfinicant influence of using Syntax Surgery towards students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text