Improving the vii a grade students' reading comprehension achievement and their active participation by using numbered heads together technique at smpn 1 kedungjajang, lumajang

Abstract

This research was intended to know whether or not the use of Numbered Heads Together (NHT) technique could improve the VII A grade students’ descriptive text reading comprehension achievement and their active participation at SMP Negeri 1 Kedungjajang, Lumajang. Therefore, this research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as a research design which consisted of planning the action, implementation the action, observation, evaluation, and reflection. The research participantswas 24 students of class VII-A at SMP Negeri 1 Kedungjajang, Lumajang. The data collection methods that were required in this research were reading test and observation for primary data. Meanwhile, interview and documentation were used to get supporting data. The collected data were analyzed by using simple statistic with percentage formula. Based on the data analysis of this research, it could be showed that the percentage of the students’ active participation increased from 65,2% in Cycle 1 to 8 3.3% Cycle 2. Moreover, the results of the percentage of students who got at least 70 in reading comprehension test increased from 66.6% in cycle 1 to 73.9% in cycle 2. Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that the use of NHT technique was able to improve the students’ participation and their reading comprehension achievement.