THE EFFECTIVENESS SPEED READING TOWARD
            STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSIONAT
             THESECOND GRADE OF MTsN PALOPO
                   ST. NUR AZIZAH
                    1501404003
          FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
             PALOPOCOKROAMINOTO UNIVERSITY
                      2020
             THE EFFECTIVENESS SPEED READING TOWARD STUDENTS’
               READING COMPREHENSION ATTHE SECOND GRADE
                        OF MTsN PALOPO
                           A THESIS
                Submitted to the English Language Education Study Program
            Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Cokroaminoto Palopo University
           as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
                         ST. NUR AZIZAH
                           1501404003
               ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
               FACULTY OFTEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
                  PALOPO COKROAMINOTO UNIVERSITY
                            2020
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                                    ABSTRACT
               ST.  Nur  Azizah. 2020 The  Effectiveness  Speed  Reading  toward  Students’
               Reading Comprehension at the Second Grade of MTsN Palopo (supervised by Sri
               Damayanti and Suardi).
               This research aims to find out the effectiveness speed reading toward students’
               reading comprehension at the second grade of MTsN Palopo. In this research, the
               researcher used pre-experimental research design. The population of this research
               is second  grade  students  of MTsN Palopo in  2019/2020 academy  year. The
               number  of  population  is  380 students. The  researcher  used cluster  sampling
               technique in determining the sample. The researcher used reading test with ten
               questions. The  result  of  this  research  shows the  use  of  speed  reading  toward
               students’ reading comprehension at the second grade of MTsN Palopo. It was
               strength by the mean score of students in the pretest and in the posttest. The mean
               score of students in the pretest is 66.50 lower than the mean score of students in
               the  posttest  87.50.  In  addition, ∝ is  higher  than  p-value  (0.05>0.00).  In  the
               significant  test  analysis,  it  indicates  that  null  hypothesis  is  rejected  and  H is
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               accepted. It means that the implementation of speed reading is effective toward
               students’ reading comprehension at the second grade of MTsN Palopo.
               Keywords: reading comprehension, quantitative, speed reading
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