THE EFFECT OF USING NUMBERED HEAD TOGETHER TECHNIQUE ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 2 TANGGUL JEMBER

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The Effect of Using Numbered Head Together Technique on the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember; Setya Agustin, 080210401038; 2013: 45 Pages; English Education Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University.

The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Numbered Head Together Technique on the Eighth Grade Students Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember. Reading is one of the basic skills that are taught to the junior senior high school students. Reading relates to reading comprehension. It means that when students are reading, they are doing thinking process by comprehending all the words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs in order to get the meaning of the text as a whole. Through reading activities, students are expected to be able to understand the meaning of the whole text. Consequently, the students must have a good reading ability. Based on the interview with the English teacher of the eighth grade at SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember, it was known that the English teacher taught the students by using lecturing technique, he never used NHT Technique in teaching reading. He also explained that lecturing technique actually does not very effective for students. The students cannot really understand the meaning of the reading text. Consequently, they could not answer the comprehension questions as correctly as expected. For that reason, the teacher should choose the appropriate teaching strategy to make the students master in reading skill. One of them is Numbered Head Together Technique. The population of the research was the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember, which consisted of five classes (VIII A, VIII B, VIII C, VIII D, and VIII E). The sample of the research was class VIII B (the experimental) consisted of 35 students and class VIII C (control class) consisted of 36 students. The data in this research was gathered by administering a reading comprehension test. In this research, quasi-experimental with posttest-only control group design was applied. First, the researcher administered the homogeneity test to the eighth grade students at SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The homogeneit y test’s result was homogeneous. Therefore, the researcher took the respondents as experimental and control groups by lottery. After that, the researcher gave the treatment, the experimental group (VIII B) was taught by using NHT Treatment and the control group (VIII C) was taught by using lecturing technique. After two meetings, both classes got posttest. At last, posttest scores were analyzed by using Independent Sample t-test through SPSS program. The result of the analysis indicated that the value of significant column of Lavene’s test was 0.012. It was lower than 0.05. Consequent ly, the row that must be read was the second row of t-test column. In t-test column, the value of significant column (2-tailed) was 0.010 and it was lower than 0.05. It means that was rejected and Ha was accepted or there was a statistical difference between the experimental group and the control group. Based on the explanations above, it was concluded that there is a significant effect of using Numbered Head Together Technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 2 Tanggul Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. So, it is suggested to the English teachers to use Numbered Head Together Technique to teach English to the students, especially to teach reading