THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING RECIPROCAL METHOD IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT TO TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH TAMBAK

BANYUMAS IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012 A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department of the Teacher Training and Educational Sciences Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in Partial Fulfillment of Requirement for the SarjanaPendidikan Degree

By: Sri Lestari Rahayu NIM. 08.212.0195

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES FACULTY MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO 2013

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING RECIPROCAL METHOD IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT TO TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH TAMBAK BANYUMAS IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012 By Sri Lestari Rahayu
Abstract This thesis is a pre-experimental research. The purpose of this research is to increase the students motivation to learn English and make the students more active in teachinglearning process, especially in learning reading narrative text to tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas in the academic year of 2011/2012. The researcher used Reciprocal method in teaching reading narrative text to increase the students reading ability. The research was carried at SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas from May 23th to May 24th 2012. The number of population is all of students at tenth grade level. The sample was the first grade students consist of 30 students. The sampling technique of this thesis is saturated sampling. The reseacher was observed of two times, they are before(pre-test) and after giving the treatmen(post-test). The research Is quantitative research and used t-test for the technique of data analysis. To collect the data, the researcher used test as the instrument. The researcher used the written test. The type of test is multiple choices consist of 30 items. Based on the data analysis, it is found that t-value is 2.165 while the t-table is 1.699. It means that t-value is higher than the critical value on the t-table (2.165>1.699). According to the result of computation of the research, using Reciprocal Method to teaching reading narrative text is effective, especially to increase the students reading ability. Keywords: Reciprocal method, Reading ability and Narrative text

A. Introduction In education context, English has function as a means of communication in daily life, to get knowledge, to make interpersonal communication, to share information and to enjoy language lesson in English culture (Depdikbud, 2003: 6). Although English is not the new thing for Senior high school students, in fact they still have difficulties in studying English. It is difficult for the students to remember all the words in English and to understand when the teacher speaks in English. From the four English skills, almost all of students have difficulties in reading activity. However, reading comprehension as one of the language skills becomes the emphasis of the English teaching in senior high school. Because by reading increases vocabulary, knowledge, fluency, and to be more familliar in English word. To select the appropriate

texts in reading, the teacher must consider the characteristics of the students, which directly related to the learning process, and also the teacher must create the subject in order the students can study the subject easily. A teacher needs to design and teach by different strategies in this case of comprehension strategies. One of the techniques is teaching reading narrative text using Reciprocal Method. Reciprocal teaching is a powerful teaching strategy which allows students to play different roles to practice predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. These are important strategies for fostering and monitoring comprehension. To make it a success, it is important to find the right passage for students to practice these strategies and for students to practice these strategies regularly.

B. Method This research is per-experimental research, because the researcher uses one group (pre-test and post-test) in conducting the research. One case is observed at two points, one point before the treatment and one point after the treatment. Changes in the outcome of interest are presumed to be the result of the intervention or treatment. No control or comparison group is employed. In this research is to find out the significant different between teaching learning reading narrative text before using reciprocal method and after using reciprocal method. The researcher chooses SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas. It is located in Banyumas regency, Central Java. The address of this school is at Karangpucung Street Tambak Banyumas 53194 as the population sampling. The object is the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas. The population of this study is all the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas who registered in academic year of 2011/2012. The total of the population is 30 students distributed in one class. The researcher uses saturated sampling technique because all members of the population used as a sample. In practice, the researcher will conduct a pre-test on the first day while the treatment will be carried out on the second day and post-test on the last day. This research is a quantitative research, so it needs a data analysis. This analysis is related to the computation of the data and hypothesis testing presented. The researcher applies an appropriate technique to analyze the data to find out whether teaching reading narrative text using Reciprocal Method is effective or not. In the inferential analysis,

hypothesis testing is done. In this testing, the hypothesis will be analyzed through t-test. The t-test is to see the score difference between the two variables; the students reading ability of the pre-test group and the post-test group. After getting the result of t-value, then the t-value is consulted to the t-table. C. Research Findings The table below is the summarized of the computation data analysis of pre-test and post-test score. N 30 30 Group Pre-test Post-test HS 80 90 LS 40 50 R 40 40 Me 60 65 Mo 60 60 Mean 62.33 66.66 SD 11.94 10.61

The highest score of pre-test (H) was 80. The lowest score (L) was 40. The average score (Mean) was 62.33. The median (Me) was 60. The mode (Mo) was 60 and the range (R) was 40. The standard deviation (SD) was 11.94. According to the students category, the mean belongs to the sufficient because the mean is in the score class of 56 - 65. So it can be concluded that the result of the pre-test is sufficient. From 30 students, there are 7 students (23.33%) belong to fairly sufficient category, 11 students (36.67%) belong to sufficient category, 7 students (23.33%) belong to good category, and 5 students (16.67%) belong to excellent category.

The highest score of post-test (H) was 90. The lowest score (L) was 50. The mean score (M) was 66.66. The median (Me) is 65. The mode (Mo) is 60, and the range (R) was 40. The standard deviation (SD) was 10.61. According to the students category, the mean belongs to good because the mean in the score class of 66 79. So it can be concluded that the result of the post-test is good. From 30 students, there are 3 students (10%) belong to fairly sufficient category, 12 students (40%) belong to sufficient category, 9 students (30%) belong to good category, and 6 students (20%) belong to excellent category. From the analysis in chapter IV, it shown with the number of sample (N1 = 30 and N2 = 30) and the level of significance is 5%, the result of the computation of t-value 2.165. Based on the value in the t-table for N1 = 30 and N2 = 30 and the significance level

is 5%, the critical value on t-table is 1.699. So, the t-value is higher than the critical value. The obtained t-value is higher than the critical value on the table (2.165 >1.699). Based on the hypothesis testing above, it is concluded that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. From the computation in previous chapter, the researcher concludes that teaching reading narrative text using reciprocal method to tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas is effective.

D. Conclusion Based on the data analysis, the testing of the hypothesis and the discussion in chapter IV, the conclusion can be drawn that teaching reading narrative text using reciprocal method is effective for the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak, Banyumas in the academic year of 2011/2012. Since the result of t-test was 2.165. Then, the researcher consulted the critical value on the t-table using the 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the 29 degree of freedom (N-1) was 1.699, the mean of pre-test and post-test is different (teaching reading narrative text before using reading is 62.33 and teaching reading narrative text after using reciprocal method is 66.66 the different mean is 4.33). Since the obtained t-value was higher than the critical value on the table (2.165>1.699), the hypothesis is accepted. It means that teaching reading narrative text using reciprocal method is effective for the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Tambak Banyumas.

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