The Effect of Applying the Talk-To-The-Text Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Texts

This study investigates the effect of applying the talk-to-the-text strategy on students' reading comprehension of narrative text. By employing quasi-experimental research design, specifically pre- and post-tests design, talk-to-the-text reading strategy was implemented as a treatment in experimental class while the utilization of conventional strategy was taught in control class. The study was conducted by involving eighth grade students of a Junior Secondary School in Bintan, Indonesia. Cluster random sampling was employed in order to determine the samples. In order to gain the data, a reading comprehension test was used as the research instrument. Based on the data analysis using t-test, the result revealed that talk-to-the-text strategy gives better effect toward the comprehension of grade eight students in reading narrative texts.