THE EFFECT OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY (DRTA) STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO SUMMARIZE THE TEXT

Abstract

Writing is one skill that plays important rule in education. Through writing students can be creative in showing everything that they keep in their mind in the written way. Some of them have difficulties in developing their ideas, especially to summarize the text. The teachers can use many strategy in teaching writing that can help the students solve their problems. Therefore, the writer conducted the research about The Effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy on Students’ Ability to Summarize The Text. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy on students’ ability to summarize the text. The writer used quasy experimental design control group pre-test post-test, so there are two groups in this research. The result of this research shows that t_computed for summarizing the text is 0.51 with df 68 while the result of t_table in the level of significant t_0.05 = 1.671 and t_0.01 = 2.390. It can be shown that 0.51<1.671 and 0.51<2.390. it means that t_computed is lower than t_table, so the alternative hypthesis Ha is rejected and null hypothesis Ho is accepted. Therefore, the writer concludes that there is no effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy on students’ ability to summarize the text.