THE EFFECT OF USING WEBBING TECHNIQUE ON GRADE-8 STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP NEGERI 5 TANGGUL JEMBER

Abstract

English as the foreign language in Indonesia is considered as a compulsory subject for Junior High School and Senior High School students. Based on the 2006 Institutional Level Curriculum of Grade-8 students of SMP, there are four language skills that should be mastered, namely reading, listening, writing, speaking skill, and there are three language components namely vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Reading plays important roles in English teaching learning, because many references are written in English. Generally, Indonesian students still have difficulty in comprehending reading texts. The students’ problems come from the fact that the conventional technique they usually use in learning reading can not be used to solve or answer it. The students need to be effective reading. Therefore, the English teacher needs to select an appropriate technique which helps students to solve their ineffectiveness in comprehending reading text. This research was experimental research. The aim of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using webbing technique on students reading comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember. The area of this research was SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember. This school was chosen because the previous researchers have never used webbing technique as a technique in this school. Besides, webbing technique has never been used as a teaching reading technique in English teaching learning in this school especially in teaching reading comprehension. The population of this research was grade-8 students of SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember in the 2010/2011 academic year. The research respondents were 79 students, they consisted of experimental group and control group. The experimental group (VIIIB) consisted of 38 students who were taught reading comprehension by using webbing technique, while the control group (VIIIA) consisted of 41 students who were taught reading comprehension by using conventional technique question- answer and lecturing. The primary data of this research were collected from students’ score of reading comprehension test while the supporting data were gained from the interview and documentation. The primary data were analyzed by using independent sample t- test. The result indicated that the use of webbing technique had a significant effect on reading comprehension achievement of the grade-8 students at SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember in the 2010/1011 academic year. It was proven by the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS which was 0.001 it meant that 0.001< 0.05. Thus, the formulated alternate hypothesis (Ha) “the use of webbing technique has a significant effect on grade-8 students reading comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember” was accepted. To know how far the effectiveness the researcher needs to analysis DRE (Degree Relative Effectiveness). The result showed that DRE was 13.12%. It means that the effectiveness of webbing technique on students reading comprehension achievement was better 13.12% from the mean score of students reading comprehension that used conventional teaching technique. Therefore, it could be stated that the use of webbing technique significantly affected the grade-8 students reading comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Tanggul Jember. Based on the result of this research, the English teacher was suggested also to use and apply webbing technique in teaching reading to make students comprehend the reading narrative text efficiently, completely and accurately and the students became more effective readers. Moreover, the future researchers were suggested to conduct a further research dealing with similar topic in different research design, different skill or different reading material.