Applying Text Features Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at Expository Text

Abstract

The main aim of this research was to indicate "Applying Text Features Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension at Expository Text for the Tenth-Grade Students of SMA Swasta Harvard Medan".  Participants were X MIA class and served as the experimental, while the X MIB class served as the control. The proportion of male students to female students in each of the classes was 18 to 42. There were 30 students in each of the classes. A quantitative model was developed for the purpose of this investigation. The reading comprehension test was the instrument that was used in this study. The model of random selection was utilized in the selection process for the sample. For the purposes of the data calculation, the researcher utilized SPSS 25. The conclusion drawn from the investigation was that the mean score on the posttest for the control was 77.44, while the mean score for the experimental was 82.08. It appears to indicate that the treatment had a major impact on the results. Text Features Strategy had helped the students in three different ways: it improved students' reading comprehension; it helped students determine what was most important in a topic; and it helped students quickly locate information. To put it more succinctly, it indicates that the implementation of the Text Features Strategy resulted in a notable improvement in the students' reading comprehension of expository text.

Keywords: Text Features strategy, Expository Text, Reading Comprehension