Abstract :
The essential of reading comprehension becomes grounded in strong cognitive skill when
it?s done early. Thus, reading comprehension skill is used for solving language learning skills at
the foundation level. It becomes a challenge when the teacher considers that getting students to
read, how designing students? reading material and finding suitable reading material are very
important. Students have different characteristic and learning style, in this case self-directed
learning helps students to choose and decide what they are going to learn and how they learn.
Thus, it is very important to gain students? independence in every aspect, include studying. This
present study took subject from senior high school students which are the most of previous study
had the same concern, employed university students. It is hoped that, self-directed learning
strategy will be acquired in the lower grade of academic. Thus, from this research, self-directed
learner will have much better future whether when students continue in academic or nonacademic
environment.
This study aims to investigate the significant effect of self-directed learning strategy in
reading comprehension between experiment and control group. Quasi experimental design of
research was applied due the condition of the subject. This study employed 50 eleventh grade of
senior high school students at MAN 1 Gresik. The sample took from XI IPA-1 which consists of
25 students, 21 female and 4 male. Besides, control group was taken from XI BAHASA-1 which
consists of 25 students, 4 male and 21 female. The data was collected by using reading
comprehension test. After getting the data, the researcher analyzed the data using SPSS 16.00
and used Independent Sample T-test.
The result showed that there was significant difference between experimental group and
control group. By the result of sig. (2-tailed) is 0.047. The sig. (2-tailed) is lower than 0.05
(0.047<0.05). so, null hypothesis (Ho) can be rejected. It means that self-directed learning
strategy significantly effect on students? reading comprehension.