| dc.description.abstract | This was a classroom action research focusing on the use of Numbered Heads
Together Technique to improve the eighth grade students’ participation and their
reading comprehension achievement. The subjects of this research were the students
of class VIII-C at MTs N Arjasa in the 2014/2015 academic year. This class was
chosen because the students in that class could not achieve the standard requirement
score of English which was 75. There were only 45.1 % or 13 students out of 30
students who got the standard score. Moreover, this class were less motivated in
joining reading class.
In this research, the researcher used NHT Technique in teaching reading
comprehension to the students because the researcher believed that this technique was
appropriate to solve the problems faced by the students. NHT is one of the
cooperative learning strategies that train the students to solve the problems together
with their teams. Besides, by applying this technique, the students will have
motivation and it decrees the students’ boredom and monotonous in teaching learning
process.
This research was conducted on March 24th - April 28th, 2015 in 2 Cycles.
Each Cycle consisted of two meetings and a reading comprehension test. In this
classroom action research, the researcher taught reading comprehension by using
NHT Technique to class VIII-C and the observer of the actions was the English
teacher of class VIII-C.
There were two kinds of important data in this research: primary data and
supporting data. The supporting data were taken through interview and
documentation while the primary data were collected through observation and
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reading comprehension achievement test. The collected data were analyzed by using
simple statistic with percentage formula.
From the observation of the students’ participation done during the teaching
learning process of reading comprehension by using NHT Technique in Cycle 1, the
average result of the students’ active participation was only 63.33%. It means the
target percentage of the students’ active participation was not achieved yet. Further,
the observations were continued to Cycle 2. The average result of the students’ active
participation increased 13.82, from 63.33% in Cycle 1 to 77.15% in Cycle 2. The
finding proved that the use of NHT Technique could improve the students’ active
participation.
Moreover, the result of reading comprehension achievement test in Cycle 1
indicated that only 20 students (66.67%) out of 30 students achieved the standard
minimum score that was 75. This result had not achieved the success criteria of the
research yet. Thus, the actions were continued to Cycle 2. In Cycle 2, the result of the
students’ reading comprehension achievement test showed that there were 23 students
(76.66%) out of 30 students could achieve the standard minimum score that was 75. It
means that the result of the students’ reading comprehension achievement improved
9.99% from 66.7% in Cycle 1 to 76.66% in Cycle 2. This result showed that the
success criteria of this research had been achieved in Cycle 2.
Based on the results above, the hypotheses of this research were accepted and
it is suggested to the English teacher and the future researchers to use NHT
Technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension | en_US |
