THE EFFECT OF USING SUSTAINED SILENT READING (SSR) METHOD ON STUDENTS’READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

This research used sustained silent reading in the X grade of SMA Negeri 1 Air Joman in order to determine empirical evidence of the students' success in reading comprehension narrative material. Quantitative research was used in this study. All of the class X students at SMA Negeri 1 Air Joman composed the study's population. For this research, samples were collected from 30 students in the experimental group (class X IPA 3) and 30 students in the control group (class X IPA 2). A test served as the data multiple choices method. (1) The writer discovered after evaluating the data that the students' success in reading comprehension narrative texts utilizing the Sustained Silent Reading method had a mean of 87,83 and a standard deviation of 66,19; (2)The standard deviation was 57,34, and the mean score for the students' reading comprehension of narrative texts using the conventional method was 69. T-observed had a value of 6,35 and T-table had a value of 2,009. The fact that the value of t-observed was higher than that of t-table indicates that the sustained silent reading approach had a large impact on students' reading comprehension achievement.