relation: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9148/ title: THE USE OF COURSE REVIEW HORAY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A study conducted to the first grade of one junior high school in Sukabumi) creator: Eka, Widia Astuti description: ABSTRACT Reading comprehension is process of reading in which the reader understands, extracts, constructs, and respond the meaning of the text. It means the students should understand in comprehending a text well, such as determining main idea, finding specific information, making inference, identifying reference and understanding the meaning of words or detail information. In fact, the students may have some difficulties to comprehend the content of English text. It is because the text is unfamiliar and contains many unfamiliar vocabularies. One of the techniques that can be used in reading lesson is Course Review Horay. The research is aimed at finding out the effect of Course Review Horay on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. Pre-Experimental method and One Group Pretest-Posttest design is used in this research. The research was conducted to the first grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Sukabumi and 26 students are taken as sample. The data were collected through reading comprehension pretest and posttest scores in the form of multiple choice items emphasizing in skimming and scanning skills, reference and vocabulary. The data were analyzed using t-test formula. The result of analysis showed that the value of t-calculation is 15.04 and the value of t-table at 0.05 level of significance is 2.06 and at 0.01 of significance is 2.79. Therefore, t-calculation was higher than t-table (2.79<15.04>2.06), hence alternative hypothesis is accepted which means that there is an effect of Course Review Horay technique on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. Keywords: Reading comprehension, Course Review Horay. date: 2019-05 type: Thesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9148/1/Skripsi%20Eka%20Widia%20Astuti%20031114090.pdf format: text language: en identifier: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9148/2/Skripsi%20Eka%20Widia%20Astuti%20031114090.pdf identifier: Eka, Widia Astuti (2019) THE USE OF COURSE REVIEW HORAY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A study conducted to the first grade of one junior high school in Sukabumi). Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan.