Improving the Seventh Year Students’ Active Participation and Their Reading Comprehension Achievement by Using Numbered Heads Together (NHT) Technique

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement by using Numbered Heads Together (NHT) technique at SMPN 4 Tanggul, Jember. The subjects of this research were the students of class VII C at SMPN 4 Tanggul in the 2013/2014 academic year. The research design was classroom action research. The data of this research were obtained from observation and a reading comprehension test. The collected data were analyzed statistically. Based on the results of observation in Cycles 1 and 2, there was an improvement as much as 5.09% on the students’ active participation during the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension from 77.26% in Cycle 1 to 82.35% in Cycle 2. The result of reading comprehension test showed that the percentage of the students who got score ≥ 70 was 72.72.% of 33 students in Cycle 1 and 85.29% of 34 students in Cycle 2. It means that there was improvement from the first cycle to the second cycle as much as 12.57% . Therefore, it could be concluded that the use of Numbered Heads Together (NHT) technique in teaching learning process especially reading comprehension could improve the students’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement.