The Effect of Using A Spidergram Technique on the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 5 Situbondo.

Abstract

English as international language is learnt by some countries as a foreign language and in other countries as a second language.Reading is one of the skills that plays an important role in learning English because through reading we can get knowledge and information.Through reading, readers can get information needed and it can be gained from various printed forms. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using a spidergram technique on eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Situbondo. The research design was quasi experimental research. The population of this research was the Eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Situbondo in the 2014/2015 Academic year.The respondents of this research were the students of class VIII B as the experimental group and the students of class VIII C as the control group. The supporting data were obtained from the interview with the English teacher of the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 5 Situbondo. The primary data of this research were obtained from the students’ score of homogeneity test. The Homogeneity test was administered to know whether all classes of the eighth grade were homogenous or not. The result implied that the population was homogeneous. Thus, two classes chosen as the experimental and control groups were chosen by using lottery. Based on the lottery, two classes were chosen VIII B as the experimental group and VIII C as the control group. The post test was administered to both the experimental and the control groups. The experimental group (VIII B) received a treatment, that was teaching reading by using a spidergram technique meanwhile the control group (VIII C) received no treatment (taught by using lecturing and question –answer techniques). The materials for both the experimental and the control groups were all the same, except the activities in teaching reading comprehension. The post test result was analyzed statistically by using SPSS (Statistical Package for the social science) especially with Independent sample t-test to know whether the mean difference between the experimental group and the control group was significant or not. The result of computation showed that was a statistically significant difference between the experimental and the control groups or there was a significant effect between those two groups. Based on the results of this research, there was a significant effect of using a spidergram technique on the eighth grade students, reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 5 Situbondo in the 2014/2015 Academic Year.