Author (Penulis)

NUR ROFI'ATUL AGUS NINGTY
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0146

Abstract

Reading is one of English skill that should be mastered by Senior High School students. They need it in their life, not only in the classroom but also out of the classroom. Reading needed by the students since they are still in the Elementary School or since they learn English for first time. In teaching reading to the Senior High School, teacher is suggested to use technique to make reading activity more interesting. Number head together is one kind of technique that can be used to teach reading. The purpose of this research is to know the students’ reading ability before and after being taught using number head together and to find whether there is any effectiveness of number head together on the students’ reading comprehension of tenth grade at SMAN 1 Mojo in academic year 2015/2016 or not. This study is quantitative approach and use experiment method to investigate the effectiveness of number head together to the students’ reading comprehension at the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Mojo academic year 2015/2016. The sample is class X – IPS 5 consisting of 42 students. Data was collected by using reading test that conducted in two parts, pre-test and post-test. Based on the result of this study, it is found that number head together has influence to the students’ reading comprehension. It is also supported by the result of the data which has been computed by the formula of t-test that the score of t-score (1,075) is higher than t-table in significant 1% (0,398) and 5% (0,308). Finally, the writer concludes that there is very significant effectiveness of number head together to the students’ reading comprehension. This technique makes learning process become easier and more enjoyable so that the students can overcome their difficulties in reading such as difficulty to find the main idea, general information, specific information, reference and the meaning because they have lack of reading comprehension. The students’ ability in comprehending the text becomes much better. The writer also suggests that the use of number head together should not be neglected from benefits of number head together and try to apply its’ activity to improve their students’ reading comprehension.

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PUBLISHED

2016-10-18

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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