THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING READING USING HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE TO THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF TENTH GRADE AT MA AR ROSYAAD BALONG ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015
Author (Penulis)
TRI MEIDA NURQOMARIYAH
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
11.1.01.08.0200
Abstract
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING READING USING
HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE TO THE STUDENTS’
READING COMPREHENSION OF TENTH GRADE
AT MA AR ROSYAAD BALONG ACADEMIC
YEAR 2014/2015
Tri MeidaNurqomariyah
FKIP - English Education Department
Meidaaya@gmail.com
Pembimbing 1
Khoiriyah,M.Pd
NIDN.0719017501
Khoir.khoiriyah@yahoo.co.id
Pembimbing 2
Mahendra Puji Permana Aji,M.Pd
NIDN.0710049002
Mail@mahendrapuji.web.id
University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri
ABSTRACT
Reading is one of skill that must be mastered by students, because by reading students can improve knowledge and information. By reading, people can reading newspaper, find job listing, maps, and so on. These are reason why reading must be teach from Junior High school until University. But in the fact, teaching reading in Senior High School is not easily, there are some of problems when teaching reading especially when teach material about Narrative text. Students difficulties to understanding reading material exacly in the meaning of the text, identify general information, determine the topic or main idea of the text, and find explicit and implicit information. Students usually also do not use technique, method or media to make them easy to understand text. Teacher in the class usually ask students to read LKS, then check answer together, this activity will make students boring. To solving some of problems, teacher can uses Herringbone Technique. It is appropriate technique because Herringbone Technique helps students understand the connections between supporting details to identify a main idea. Herringbone is like fishbone. Herringbone Technique gives some of questions such as What,Who, Why, When, Where, and How. These questions supporting to find main Idea in the text. After students were given tretment twice, the result shows that t-score was 5,109 at the degree of freedom of 12, t-table was 3,065 at the level of significance of 5%. So, it means that t-score (5,109) > t-table at the level of significance of 5%. So, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Based on the result of t-test, it can be concluded that Herringbone technique has significant influence.
Keywords :Herringbone, Reading, Reading Comprehension