Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies
Vol 6, No 1 (2023): March 2023

The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring Strategy toward Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

Henah Nadia (Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University)
Siti Suharsih (Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University)
Ika Handayani (Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jun 2023

Abstract

The goal of this research is to obtain empirical data about the effectiveness of peer tutoring strategy toward students' reading comprehension. To achieve that goal, this research used a quasi-experimental design involving tenth grade students of SMA Al-Mubarok Serang. The population used was 110 students. The sample consists of 20 students from experimental class and 20 students’ of control class which are selected using cluster random sampling. The results of the post-test revealed that the experimental class was a significantly higher score than the control class. In addition, the results of the Independent Sample T-Test revealed that the value was 0.29, while the alpha (a) was 0.05, which was 0.29<0.05. This is also supported by the results of the effect size test which has a value 2.75 and the category was strong effect (significant). Therefore, it was proven that the use of peer tutoring strategy was effective toward students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text at tenth grade of SMA Al-Mubarok. Thus, the use of peer tutoring strategy is suggested toward students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JELTS

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The aim of this journal is to publish high-quality articles in the field of English Education, English linguistics, English Literature, and Culture. The journal invites scientists, lecturers, teachers, practitioners throughout the world to disseminate theoretical and practice-oriented topics of ...