The Use Of Suggestopedia Method in Teaching Reading Comprehension at Senior High School in Banda Aceh

In learning reading, there are various obstacles that students have. Common obstacles students faced is lack of vocabulary, less fluency in reading, less familiarity with the material, and even the difficulty in processing and remembering the information. Students also feel bored when reading class because they do not have any method of reading. They also cannot focus on what they read during the reading activity and still have difficulty getting the ideas of the text. This research aims to know if there is an improvement in students' reading understanding of recount text in first grade of MAS Aliyah Darul U'lum using the suggestopedia method. This research uses quantitative research. The sample of this research is X IPS students' of MAS Aliyah Darul U'lum Banda Aceh with a total of 32 students'. in determining the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling technique. The main activities was divided into pre-test, treatment, and post-test. According to the SPSS 26 program calculation, the mean result of the pre-test was 33,13. In contrast, the result mean of the post-test is 68,75. The result of N gain is 56,25% in the effective enough category. In short, the results of the t-test where the P-value<0.05 is 0.00 <0.05. Based on the decision criteria, the hypothesis null (H_0) is rejected, and the alternative hypothesis(H_a)is accepted with 31 degrees of freedom. So, it can be concluded that there is an improvement in students' understanding of reading comprehension by using the suggestopedia method.