The Effectiveness of Eco-Descriptive Text to Increase Student’s English Reading Skill at Senior High School 1 Maronge

Abstrak

This research purposed to find out the student’s reading comprehension
by the types of eco-descriptive texts to increase student's English
reading skills at senior high school 1 Maronge. The
method of this research of this research applied quasi-experimental
research The sampling technique used cluster random sampling
technique, which the total sample of this research is 63 students. Data
collection techniques used are observation and testing. In addition, the
test implemented the pre-test and post-test design. Techniques for
analyzing data used descriptive statistical tests and paired sample t-
tests. Furthermore, The results of the sample paired t-test showed that
the sig. (2-tailed) which is 0.000, the df value is 230, the tcount value is
-59.786 which has a positive meaning of 59.786, and the mean value of
paired differences is -36.801. So, it can be concluded that sig. (2-tailed)
is 0.000 <0.05, and tcount -59.786 > ttable 1.653. This means that there
is a significant effect on the use of Eco-Descriptive Text to Increase
Students' English Reading through posttest and pretest.