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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY TOWARD READING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (An Experimental Study in the SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal in the Academic Year of 2014/2015)
Keyword : Directed Reading Thinking Activity Strategy, Students’ Reading
Achievement
The objective of this research is to find out whether Directed Reading Thinking Activity strategy is effective to use in the teaching of reading for eighth grade students of SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal in the first semester of the academic year of 2014/2015.
Based on the review of related theories and frame of thinking, the research hypothesis is proposed as follows : The students who are taught using directed reading thinking activity strategy have better reading achievement than students who are taught by buzz groups technique.
The population of this research is all of the eighth grade students in the first semester of SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal in the academic year of 2014/2015. The total numbers of the students are 111. The samples of the research are 60 students taken by using cluster random sampling. They are classified into two group, group I consists of 30 students as experiment class who are taught by directed reading thinking activity strategy and group II consists of 30 students as control class who are taught by using buzz groups technique.
The writer uses reading test as the instrument of the research. The type of the test is multiple choice tests with four options. To know the validity of the instrument, the writer had tried out the instrument by giving a test to 30 students having the same level competence.
t-test is used to know the difference result of two groups. The result of calculation analysis shows that t-test = 3,182, and then it is consulted to the level of significance 5% t-table = 1,645. It means that the result of t-test is higher than t-table. The hypothesis of this research is accepted.
The conclusion of this research shows that the use of directed reading thinking activity strategy has positive effect towards reading achievement to the eighth grade students of SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal in the academic year of 2014/2015.
English teachers are suggested to apply DRTA startegy in the teaching of reading. They should also motivate their students to work more creative. Furthermore, the teachers should give their students more reading assignments and evaluations to make them accustomed to reading.
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