THE EFFECT OF SUMMARY TECHNIQUE ON THE ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN BANDARKEDUNGMULYO JOMBANG IN THE 2011/2012 ACADEMIC

Abstract

Reading is one of the important skills that should be mastered by the students. Reading helps the students to enrich their knowledge. In teaching reading, the teacher should apply the appropriate technique in the reading class that helps the students get the message or the information from the text. Therefore, making a summary as one of the teaching techniques is chosen for this research which helps the students to comprehend the reading materials. Summary writing is one of the best techniques to help the readers concentrate, understand, learn, and remember the materials that they have read because this technique requires the reader to put reading material into their own words so they understand it better, to reduce it in size so it is more manageable and easier to learn, and to organize it so it is easier to remember. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there is a significant effect of summary technique on the year XI students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMAN Bandarkedungmulyo Jombang in the 2011/2012 academic year. The research design was quasi experimental. The populations of this research were the XI students of SMAN Bandarkedungmulyo Jombang in the 2011/2012 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 72 students, consisted of 36 students of class XI IPA 1 as the experimental group taught by making a summary that was done in individually, while the control group consisted of 36 students of class XI IPA 2 taught by Lecturing and Question-Answer method. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of reading comprehension test, while the supporting data were gained through interview and documentation. The primary data were collected from the post test to make comparison between the two groups after treatment, and analyzed by using Independent sample T-Test (SPSS). Based on the calculation, the value of sig column is 0.008 and this value is lower than 0.05. It means that the null hypothesis (H0) formulated: “there is no significant effect of summary technique on the year XI students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMAN Bandarkedungmulyo Jombang in the 2011/2012 academic year” was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis: “there is a significant effect of summary technique on the year XI students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMAN Bandarkedungmulyo Jombang in the 2011/2012 academic year” was accepted. The research results proved that there was a significant effect of summary technique on the year XI students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMAN Bandarkedungmulyo Jombang in the 2011/2012 academic year. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to apply making a summary as an alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension.