The Influence Of The Interesting Topic Text On Students’ Reading Comprehension (A Case Study at SMA N 1 Suro, Aceh Singkil)

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is the influence of text with an interesting topics on reading comprehension skills based on students’ and teachers’ point of view in English studies. The research method used in this study was qualitative methods by using the questionnaire and interview technique. The population in this study is all students of SMA N 1 Suro and English teachers, with the sample amounted 20% of the total students and 2 English teachers. Questionnaire was used to find out students’ opinion about the interesting topic texts, while the interview was used to find out whether the interesting topic text influences students’ reading comprehension based on teachers’ perception. The study concluded that: (1) The use of text with interesting topics influence students' interests, motivations and learning outcomes in reading comprehension sessions in English studies in SMA N 1 Suro students. Based on the questionnaire result, the researcher found that there are 71% of all samples who strongly agreed that the use of the interesting topic text was quite influential on students’ reading comprehension. (2) According to the interview data of two English teachers, positive results are also obtained regarding to the influence of the interesting topic texts on reading comprehension of students at SMA N 1 Suro, Aceh Singkil. Based on the results, researcher concluded that the interesting topic texts influence the students’ reading comprehension. Therefore, researcher suggests that teachers can use the interesting topic texts as the material in teaching reading.