The Reading Comprehension of Report Text of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in Academic Year 2013/2014 Taught by Using Two Stay Two Stray

Hanifah, Naning Risti. 2014. “The Reading Comprehension of Report Text of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in Academic Year 2013/2014 Taught by Using Two Stay Two Stray”. Skripsi. Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muria Kudus. Advisor(i) Fitri Budi Suryani, SS, M.Pd. (ii) Rismiyanto, SS, M.Pd. Key words: Reading comprehension, report text, two stay two stray Reading is one of the language skills which has important roles for the students in enriching their knowledge and adding more experience. However, many students get difficulties to understand the meaning of the text in reading comprehension.It is caused by the lack of vocabulary and still depends on the teacher in teaching learning process. They feel difficult to share their idea about the material that is learned.In teaching process, teacher has to choose appropriate technique with the student’s condition in order to that the aim of teaching learning process can be raised. Two Stay Two Stray is one of teaching technique that can be used in teaching reading to develop the students reading skill. This technique significantly improved students’ reading comprehension especially in reading report text. In this research, the writer focuses on report text as the material. The objective of this research are to find out whether or not there is significane of the difference between the Reading Comprehension of Report text of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in academic year 2013/2014 taught before and after using Two Stay Two Stray. Design of this research is an experimental research. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in the academic year 2013/ 2014. The subject of this research is students in XI.IPA 3, which consist of thirty three students. The research instrument used by the writer is test. The form of the test is multiple choices and consists of thirty items. The result of this research, it was found that of the reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in academic year 2013/ 2014 before being taught by using Two Stay Two Stray was sufficient. The mean is 59.15, and the standard deviation is 9.64. Meanwhile of the reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in academic year 2013/ 2014 after being taught by Two Stay Two Stray was categorized good. The mean is 78.48 and standard deviation is 7.25. Moreover the calculation of t-observation (to) 12.55 was higher than t-table (tt) 2.04 in level of significance 5%. It means there is significance difference between the the reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Mayong Jepara in academic year 2013/ 2014 before and after being taught by using Two Stay Two Stray. Based on the result above, the researcher suggested that the English teacher is expected can use Two Stay Two Stray as an alternative technique to teach the students in reading comprehension. The teacher are suggested to use Two Stay Two Stray as one of technique to stimulate the students’ learning reading spirit and interest in teaching learning process.