THE EFFECT OF USING RECIPROCAL TEACHING METHOD ON READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 1 KENCONG JEMBER

Abstract

English is considered as a world language because English is used by around 400 million people in the world as a mother tongue, a further around 350 million people and 100 million people used English as second language and foreign language. Furthermore, over 60 countries used English as official or semi-official language. Over two-thirds of the world’s scientists write in English and three-quarters of the world’s mail is written in English. For that reason, English is used as main language of books, newspapers, technology, and science. This research is a Pre-Experimental design, single group posttest-only design. The treatment used Reciprocal Teaching Method. The class became as a control group when the researcher taught the students by giving Lecturing and QuestionAnswer

without giving treatment. Whereas, the class became as an experimental group when the researcher taught the students by giving the treatment that was teaching reading by using Reciprocal Teaching Method. The data in this research was gathered by administering a reading test. This research was intended to know whether or not there was any significant effect of the use Reciprocal Teaching Method to the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension of SMPN 1 Kencong Jember in the academic year 2012/2013. The research subjects were 37 students of class VIII A. They were taken by using purposive method. Based on the results of the data analysis and discussion, it was proved that there was a significant effect of using Reciprocal Teaching Method on reading comprehension achievement of the eighth grade students at SMPN 1 Kencong. It was proven from the results of the post test, the mean score of the experimental group was 84.43 which was higher than the mean score of the control group that was 80.43. The result indicated that the students had better learning achievement when they became

the experimental group than when the students became the control group. In other words, Reciprocal Teaching Method gave significant effect on the students reading comprehension achievement. Considering that the use of Reciprocal Teaching Method has a significant effect on students reading achievement it is suggested to the English teacher to also apply Reciprocal Teaching Method in teaching reading ability to make the students more effective in developing their thinking in reading ability. It is also suggested to the students to adapt with the strategies in Reciprocal Teaching Method, so they can read a text comprehensively and answer the questions based on the text accurately. Besides, to the other researchers it is suggested to conduct a similar research topic with the same or different research design, in different research area or different level of students.