The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension on Tourism at the English Class of Economic Students

Sondang Manik

2018

Abstract

This study focused on finding out the Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension on Tourism at English Class of Economic students of UHN Medan. Nowadays Indonesian government focus on improving Tourism and all the people support the government decision. There are ideas and one of them is by putting the topic of tourism text in some curriculum of English reading subject. Using the tourism text in the reading text. This study was conducted in experimental Quantitative design. The population of this research are 45 students. There were 38 students of the Economic Department students as the sample of research. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely Experimental Group and Control Group. The experimental group was taught by using Synthesizing Strategy, while control group was taught without Synthesizing Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data was a multiple choice test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shown that t-observed (3.65) was higher than t-table (1.68) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. It means that there was a significant effect of Synthesizing Strategy on students reading comprehension. The null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Manik S. (2018). The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension on Tourism at the English Class of Economic Students. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD, ISBN 978-989-758-543-2, pages 401-407. DOI: 10.5220/0009903700002480

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnrsd18,
author={Sondang Manik},
title={The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension on Tourism at the English Class of Economic Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,},
year={2018},
pages={401-407},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009903700002480},
isbn={978-989-758-543-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,
TI - The Effect of Synthesizing Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension on Tourism at the English Class of Economic Students
SN - 978-989-758-543-2
AU - Manik S.
PY - 2018
SP - 401
EP - 407
DO - 10.5220/0009903700002480