The Comparison of the Students’ Ability in Reading Aloud Between the Eleventh Grade of IPA 2 and IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa

This research was conducted to compare the students’ ability in reading aloud between the eleventh grade of IPA 2 and IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa. The purposes of this research are: (1) To know the students' ability of the eleventh grade IPA 2 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa in reading aloud. (2) To know the students' ability of the eleventh grade IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa in reading aloud. (3) To find out the difference of the students’ ability in reading aloud between the eleventh grade of IPA 2 and IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa. This research used quantitative approach which included into a comparative non-experimental research. This research used test as an instrument to obtain data. The test gave towards forty five students of the two classes in academic year 2014/2015 on November 2014. This research used descriptive and inferential analysis to analyze data, that is, it used mean score and t-test. Based on the mean score analysis, the eleventh grade students of IPA 2 had 65.6 score. Meanwhile the eleventh grade students of IPA 3 had 60.9 score. Whereas based on the t-test analysis, it showed that tcount ≠ ttable, that is, tcount (1.59) ≠ ttable (1.72). It showed that HO was rejected and Ha was accepted. So, there was a difference of the students’ ability in reading aloud between the eleventh grade of IPA 2 and IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 4 Langsa