THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CONTEXT CLUES STRATEGY TO THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 JATINEGARA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Kurniati, Fury Jelitta 2019. “The Effectiveness of Teaching Reading
Comprehension Through Context Clues Strategy to the Seventh Grade
Students of SMPN 02 Jatinegara in the Academic Year 2019/2020”.
Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language
and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dra.
Maria Yosephine, M.Pd, Advisor II: Dra. Siti Lestari, M.Pd.
Keywords : Context Clues strategy, Reading Comprehension.
The objectives of the research are: (1) to find out the students‟ reading
comprehension before they are taught by using Context Clues strategy (2) to find
out the students‟ reading comprehension after they are taught by using Context
Clues strategy (3) to find out whether there is significant difference between
students‟ reading comprehension before and after being taught by using Context
Clues strategy. This research used pre-experimental. The design of the research
was pre-experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test design. The
population of this research was the seventh grade of SMPN 2 Jatinegara. There
were five classes of the seventh grade in SMPN 2 Jatinegara. The writer took 32
students from class VII B as the sample. The result of this study shows that; a)
before the students had been given the treatment, the mean score of pre-test was
66,25; b) after the students had been given the treatment, the mean score of post-
test was 80,84; c) there were significant difference between before and after being
taught by using context clues strategy in the seventh grade students of SMPN 2
Jatinegara. It can be seen in the result of t-test was 11,507 and t-table was 2,040 it
means that t-test was higher than t-table (11,507 > 2,040). English teacher may try
to apply context clues strategy in reading comprehension because it has many
advantages.