Improving Islamic Senior High School Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement Through The Implementation Of Numbered Heads Together (Nht) Technique

Abstract

This classroom action research was intended to improve the eleventh Agama 6 students’ reading comprehension achievement of analytical exposition text and students’ participation at MAN Bondowoso. The preliminary study was conducted by interviewing the English teacher of MAN Bondowoso. The interview was done on March, 24th 2017. Based on the preliminary study, the eleventh grade students of MAN Bondowoso also found a problem on the English subject. The English teacher said that almost all of the eleventh Agama 6 students had low achievement in English especially in reading. To overcome the problem, the researcher implemented Numbered Heads Together (NHT) Technique in teaching reading, and the type of text is an analytical exposition text. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation checklist and reading comprehension achievement tests. The data were analyzed quantitatively to know the results of students’ reading comprehension achievement and their participation after conducting the research. The action was implemented in two Cycles in order to achieve the criteria of success. There were three meetings in each Cycle, it means that there were 2 meetings for the actions and one meeting for reading comprehension achievement test. In each meeting in Cycle 1, the result of the students’ participation showed improvement. In the first meeting of Cycle 1, there were 13 active students or 30% of 43 students. In the second meeting of Cycle 1, there were 25 active students or 58% of 43 students. The average results of the students’ participation in meeting 1 and meeting 2 of Cycle 1 were 44%. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students’ active participation in Cycle 1 was not successful, with the target minimum percentage in this research that was 75%. The results of the reading comprehension achievement test in Cycle 1 showed that there were 46.5% or 20 students of 43 students who achieved the target scores ≥ 75 and 53.48% or 23 students of 43 students who got scores ≤ 75. The passing grade of English in MAN Bondowoso is 75. The result indicated that the students’ reading comprehension achievement test had not been achieved yet in the Cycle 1. It can be said that the actions were not successfully done in the Cycle 1. Based on the results mentioned in Cycle 1, the researcher did the reflection to revise some weaknesses found in Cycle 1; that was why, Cycle 2 was necessary to be conducted. Based on the data in Cycle 2, it can be said that by implementing NHT technique could improve the students’ reading comprehension achievement and participation. The average percentage of the students’ participation in the first meeting and the second meeting of Cycle 2 improved from 44% in Cycle 1 up to 81.5% in Cycle 2. Therefore, the students’ active participation in the teaching learning process of reading comprehension through NHT technique had achieved the target. Then, the results of students’ reading comprehension achievement test also showed the improvement. There were 77% or 33 students of 43 students who achieved the target scores ≥ 75 and 23.25% or 10 students of 43 students who got score ≤ 75. The results of the students’ reading comprehension achievement test improved from 46.5% in Cycle 1 up to 77% in Cycle 2. The result indicated that the students’ reading comprehension achievement test had been achieved in the Cycle 2. In another words, the actions were successfully done in the Cycle 2. It can be concluded that the research was successful. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that the implementation of NHT technique could improve the XI Agama 6 students’ achievement in reading comprehension of an analytical exposition text. In addition, students’ participation in the teaching learning process was also successful. By regarding the results of the research, hopefully it is suggested for the English teacher to implement NHT technique to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement and students’ active participation in teaching learning process. This research could be used for future researchers who will implement NHT technique in his or her research. It also could be used as information and references to conduct a further research dealing with the implementation of NHT technique in teaching reading comprehension achievement to the students or other different skill, participants and school.