The Implementation of Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) Technique in Recount Text

The purposes of this research are to find out the effects of using the Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) technique in reading comprehension of recount text and to describe the students’ perception in studying recount text using Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) technique. In obtaining the data, the writer did an experimental study and distributed the questionnaire to the second grade students of SMP 4 Banda Aceh which involved 17 students in the class VIII-5. This research used quantitative and qualitative approach. The researcher used two research instruments; there were tests and questionnaire. The results of the tests show that the means score of post-test is higher than pre-test (80,88> 54,82). While the result of t-test was 5,1, the critical value was 0.05 and degree of freedom (df)= N-1= 17-1= 16 is 1,74. The obtained t-score was 5,1. So the t-score was higher than t-table (tscore = 5,1> ttable =1,74). This indicates that there was a significant difference of achievement in the test result before and after applying this method. The result of the questionnaire proved that most of the students were interested in using Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) technique.