The Effect of Contextual Clues on Students Reading Comprehension Using The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember

This research report the effect of Contextual Clues on Students Reading Comprehension using The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember. The research was pre-experimental research and it was conducted by using one group pre-test post-test design. The research subject was the last year students of English Department program consisting of 33 students. The data collected using pre-test and post-test, and the instrument used was Reading Comprehension test in form multiple choices. In order to analyze the data students Reading Comprehension T-test was used. The researcher found that there was different score between pre-test and post-test. The mean score of post-test is higher than the mean score of pre-test. Before the students are taught using Contextual Clues, their total score of writing test is 2295 and the mean of their pre-test is 69.55. After the students were taught using Contextual Clues, their total score of writing test is 2975 and the mean of their post-test is 90.15. The result calculation of t-test and t-table for the level significant 5 % showed that there is a significant different between pre- test and post-test. The score of t-test is -6.875 and the t-table is 2.997 in the level of significance 5%. Based on the result the researcher concluded that there is a effect of Contextual Clues on Students Reading Comprehension Using The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember.