The Previous Research Outcomes on Predict Locate Add Note Strategy

2.10 The Previous Research Outcomes on Predict Locate Add Note Strategy

There are many previous researches dealing with the use of Predict Locate Add Note Strategy. However, the writer reported only two researches in this research. The first study has been done by Lindy J. Seagrave 2006. The evidence about the effectiveness of PLAN Strategy was stated by Lindy J. Seagrave 2006 who had conducted a classroom action research about the use of PLAN Strategy in a tenth grade science classroom in the reading comprehension in teaching learning process and the students’ reading comprehension achievement of a biology textbook. It was found that there were more likely 78 students which showed improvement on understanding the materia l and doing the exercise. She compared the students’ base score BS which was taken from the compilation of the average course grade during the first two nine weeks periods of the course and the biology past course grade with the PLAN score PS was taken from the grade at the conclusion on the third nine weeks after PLAN Strategy was implemented. It was found that in general students who had a high BS comparatively had a high PS as well. Overall results of the percentage comparison indicated that most students showed an increase in their grade during the time when the PLAN reading strategy was implemented in their biology course. The result also proved that five students showed a decline in their achievement, one student showed no change and the remaining seventeen students experienced an increase in their biology achievement. This percentage indicates a marginal improvement in reading comprehension after the implementation of the PLAN reading strategy. Before the PLAN there were nine students in each the above average and average categories, and five students in the below average category. After the PLAN there were still nine above average students, while the average students increased to eleven and the below average students decreased to three. From this data, it can be determined that there were slight increase in students achievement among the below average students after the PLAN was implemented. Additionally, the data shows that the number of above average students remained relatively stable. The second study has been done by Ramadhanis Annasher 2014 who had conducted an experimental research entitled “The Effect of using Predict Locate Add Note Strategy toward Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text of the Second Year Students at Budi Dharma School Du mai.”. Based on her research outcomes, the evidence showed the mean score of the experimental group was 78.76, and the mean score of the control group was 70.93. It meant that the experimental group got a higher mean score that that in the control group. Further, the two-tailed level of significance was 0.009 and it was lower than 0.005 which considered that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups. The statistical computation means that the experimental group had better reading comprehension achievement than the control group. Regarding to the positive research finding above, it seems that PLAN Strategy is an effective way in teaching English, especially reading skill, as long as the teacher has done some efforts to make a better preparation. In other words, it has a significant effect which is provided through this research.

2.11 The Research Hypothesis