The Effectiveness of Using Think-Aloud Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability in Recount Text at The Eighth Grade Students Of SMP N 3 Gombong in The Academic Year of 2015/2016

The  objective  of  the  study  is  to  describe  the  effectiveness  of  using  think-aloud strategy to teach reading recount text to the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Gombong. The  subject  of  the  study  is  the  eighth  grade  students  of  SMP  N  3  Gombong  in  the academic year 2015/2016. In this research, the researcher took 64 students of VIII C and VIII A as sample; they are experimental and control class. The result of the study showed that  the  students’  progress  of  experimental  group  in  mastering  reading  ability  is  really good. It was found the result of t-value was 4.89. Based on the 0.05 significant level, the value of t-table was 1.68. The computation showed that t- value was higher than t-table, which  was  4.89>1.68.  Moreover,  the  mean  of  control  class  (71.38)  is  included  into interval  70-79.  It  means  that  students  of  control  class  have  good  result  on  their reading ability. The mean of experimental class (77.13) is included into interval 70-79. It means that students of experimental class have good result on their reading ability. It shows that using think-aloud strategy on the teaching-learning process gives a positive contribution toward the students’ reading ability. So, the use of Think-Aloud Strategy was effective to improve students reading ability in recount text to eighth grade of SMP N 3 Gombong in Academic Year 2015/2016.