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A. Background of the Problem Reading is very important for many aspects of life 1. Activating mind 2. Get a lot of knowledge about many things 3. Give us pleasure The Reading Problems at SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan 1. The students not interested in reading English 2. The students get wrong information from the texts 3. The students still have a little vocabulary To solve the problem in reading 1. Skimming 2. Scanning 3. Pre questioning 4. Predicting Information from the Pictures The researchers chose predicting information from the pictures to see the effect on reading comprehension in SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan.

1. The students not interested in reading English because they did not know how to pronunciation of the words 2. The students get wrong information from the texts 3. The students still have a little vocabulary C. Limitation of the Problem The researcher focuses in using of predicting information from the pictures. So that, the problem of research limited as the effect of predicting information from the pictures on students reading comprehension in the report text.

1.How far is students ability in predicting information from the pictures at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan ? 2.How far is students ability in reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan ? 3.Is there the significant effect of predicting information from the pictures on reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan ? E. The Purposes of the Research 1. To know the students ability in predicting information from the pictures at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. 2. To know the students ability in reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. 3.To know whether there is the significant effect of predicting information from the pictures on reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan.

For the teachers, may be increasing their knowledge in English, especially about the effect of predicting information from the pictures to reading ability and giving reference to development of teaching learning process in reading that predicting information from the pictures can make the students reading comprehension will be better. For the researcher, to add of knowledge and experience of researcher in English, especially about the effect of predicting information from the pictures to reading ability and giving a profitable description to any further researcher which wants to study the same case, so this study become a helpful information and useful reference for the next study. For the students may be increasing their motivation in learning English as a foreign language, the students have been taught about how to identify the main idea and supporting details of a paragraph and how to recognize kinds of text, giving a contribution to the students how to improve their skill in comprehending about the reading text and predicting information from the pictures in reading text can help the students to comprehend the reading text.

1. Predicting information from the pictures : One of reading strategies to be used by researcher which the readers making predictions from the pictures on the texts in order to easier comprehend the text. 2. Reading Comprehension : Reading comprehension is defined by the researcher is students understanding of the text after using one of the reading strategies, it is predicting information from the pictures. H. Theoretical Description 1. Predicting Information 2. Predicting Information from the Pictures 3. Conventional Strategy 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Report Text

1. Hayati The effect of guide reading technique on the students achievement in reading comprehension at MTs. Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan. 2. Leny Mahdalena Effects of pre-questioning on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya in academic year 2006/2007. 3. Dewi Rita The correlation between reading strategies ability and their ability in summarizing text a study on the grade XI students of SMA Negeri 1 Tambangan in 2009/2010 academic years. So, from the third of researchers, the writer can be concluding that many reading strategies can be increase reading comprehension and reading strategies have significant effect on reading comprehension.

The students not interested in reading English. The students get wrong information from the texts. The students still have a little vocabulary.

Predicting information from the pictures is theoretically good to solve the problem in reading
Pre-test

Experimental class use predicting information from the pictures

Post-test

Control class use conventional technique

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There is significant effect of predicting information from the pictures on reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. L. Research Methodology 1. Time and Place of the Research This research will be done at SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. It is located at H.T Rizal Nurdin km. 8 street, Padangsidimpuan of North Sumatera. Time of this research started on Nopember 2011 until finished at SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. 2. Research Design The method used in this research is experimental method. Experimental research is a kind of research which has the aim to know causal effect relationship between one variable or more to other variables with reduce or set aside other factors that could interfere.

a. Population Population is the entire subject under study. The population in this study were all students in grade VIII SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan which amounts to 252 students. For more details can be noted in the table below :
No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Class VIII.1 VIII.2 VIII.3 VIII.4 VIII.5 VIII.6 VIII.7 VIII.8 Total Total Student 32 32 31 32 31 31 31 32 252

Sample is a parts of population which will be researched. The writer chooses VIII.4 as the experimental class and VIII.5 as the control class. Withdrawal of the sample by using cluster random sampling technique. It can be seen the table follow :
Experimental class (VIII.4) 32 Students Control class (VIII.5) 31 Students

To get the data from the students, the writer collects by giving test. Test is some of question or view and other tool used for measure skill, knowledge, and intelligence ability. a). Instrumentation Validity 1. Logical validity is the instrument which done by analysis logically; it comfort to the content. 2. Empirical validity is the instrument have comfort to aspect empirically. b). Instrumentation Reliability Researchers used a test-retest reliability for this research. The researcher use the formula of the correlation product moment to know the intrument realibility. 5. Technique of Collecting Data a. Pre-test b. Treatment c. Post-test

The analysis of data is done to find out the ability of the two groups that have been divided in to experimental class and control class. The data will be analyzed by using the ttest.

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