Male and Female Strategy in reading Comprehension of Narrative text at Sma Kampus FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar

Partohap S.R.Sihombing

Vol-5,Issue-1,January - February 2020

Author: Partohap S.R.Sihombing

Keywords: Male and Female, Strategy, Reading, Narrative.

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to analyze Male and Female Strategy in Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text in SMA Kampus FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar. The results of this study showed that (1) There were Seven Top down Strategy. (2) There were Eight Bottom up Strategy. (3) There were Five Interactive Strategy. Based on the results of research conducted, the researcher is find out male and female students’ strategy in reading comprehension, namely from the results of essay text research and questionnaire texts that male students are more use top down strategies in reading comprehension while female students are more use bottom up strategies in reading comprehension, namely from the results of essay text research and questionnaire texts, and there are some male and female students in using interactive strategies. The research result shown that the male students have a slight difficulty and relatively similar in understanding the Text.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.51.21