The Effect of Paraphrasing Strategy on the Students’ Ability in Comprehending Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe

Reading is one of English skills that should be mastered by students because throughreading, readers get important information, ideas or opinions of text they read about. But the fact,the students of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe at the eighth grade in 2015/2016 are not able to getinformation of narrative text. So, the researcher tries to apply Paraphrasing Strategy to investigateits significant effect on the students’ ability in comprehending narrative text. Paraphrasing Strategyis restating information in reading activity by finding the main ideas of paragraphs and by gettingthe specific facts of a text in own words. In conducting the research, the research uses quasiexperimental design. The subject of this study is the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe in2015/2016. The population of the research was consists of 103 students, the sample which consistsof 68 students by cluster sampling. The data collected both of groups’ pre test, the data werenormality and homogenous. The researcher did the treatment to the experimental group by usingParaphrasing Strategy. Based on the result of the data computation, it shown the mean score was76.61 stated good. In the control group, the researcher taught the students by using conventionalmathod. The result of post test was 61.47 stated adequate. Based on the result of hypothesis testingby using t-test, the researcher got tcount ≥ ttable (6.3347 ≥ 1.943 from the ttable with dk = 2(n-1) =2(34-1) = 66 and the significance level is 5% (∝= 0.05). Because ttableto dk 66 is not be found inthe critic distribution t of value table, so ttable is interpolated to dk 60 is 2.000 with ttable to dk 120is 1.9880 So, ttable = t1/2∝(dk) = t0.025 x 66 = 1.943. Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. It can beconclude that there was a significant effect of Paraphrasing Strategy on the students’ ability incomprehending narrative text at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe in 2015/2016. Baseon the analysis, the researcher suggest to the English teacher to use the strategy to teach thestudents. The strategy is Paraphrasing Strategy, it can solve the students problems, havefeedback,active and create the relation between teacher and student when teaching readingcomprehensionespecially in narrative text.