%0 Generic %A Muhamad Nur hidayat, 1413042043 %C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG %D 2021 %F eprints:61590 %I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN %T THE EFFECT OF SCHEMATA ACTIVATION ON READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMPN 1 NEGERI AGUNG WAY KANAN %U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/61590/ %X The objectives of this research are to investigate whether there is a significant difference in the students’ reading comprehension achievement before and after the implementation of schemata activation. This research was conducted at the second-grade students of SMPN 1Negeri Agung in academic year 2019/2020. The researcher took class VIII. The instrument used to get the data in this research was a reading test. Reading tests in the forms of pre- test and post-test were done to collect the data. Then, the t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The result of the hypothesis test proves that schemata activation gives a positive effect on student's reading comprehension achievement. It can be seen from the mean score of the pre-test and post-test which was analyzed through SPSS 16.00. In the pre-test, the mean score was 56.25 and it increases to 76.25 in the post-test. It means that there is an increase of 20 points. The result of the t-test shows that the t-value (15.745) is higher than t-table (2.045), which means, based on the criteria, there was a significant difference in students’ reading comprehension when they have schemata since 15.745> 2.045. It can be said that schemata activation gives a positive effect because it can increase students reading comprehension achievement. . Keywords: improving, reading comprehension, schemata activation