The Effect of Using WhatsApp towards the Third Year Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMP It Aziziyah Pekanbaru

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out students reading comprehension in learning reading and to know how WhatsApp social media supports their Reading Skills. The researcher expected that the students would be able to understand what they read. By reading, students are expected to be able to answer questions consisting of text and students can understand the meaning in the text as a whole. This research was an Experimental Research. The subject of this research is the third grades students of SMP IT Aziziyyah Pekanbaru, the research was conducted on 17th October until 22nd October 2022. The sample of the research was divided two groups, the first group was an experiment group, it consisted of 25 students. in order to explore the research data, the research applied reading test to the sample in experimental and control group. In this case the researcher used reading test: they are pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS to support the data. The result of the study in pre-test showed that students reading of effort text in experimental class there were 1 student stayed in very low level and there were 7 students in good level. However, in post-test of experimental class, there was 14 students can reach good level, 11 students in very good level, and 0 students in low and very low level. From the result above, it can be concluded the students had improvement in reading comprehension, it was proved by students total score had improvement after treatment using social media WhatsApp.