Abstract:
The objective of the study is to describe whether or not the use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method is effective for improving reading comprehension at the tenth grade SMA N 9 Purworejo in the academic year 2016/2017
The type of the research is experimental research. The population of the research was the tenth grade students of SMA N 9 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017.The number of the sample was 60. As the experimental group, the researcher used class X-4 which consists of 30 students. Meanwhile as control group, the researcher took 30 students of class X-3. The sampling technique which was used was purposive sampling. The instrument which was used to collect the data was a test. The form of the test was divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test to analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula.
The result of the research shows that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 49 and the mean score of post-test is 70.83. While the mean score of pre-test in control group is 51.33 and the mean score of post-test is 58.16. Then the value of t-test is 7.151 and the t-table is 2.000. Then the researcher consults the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 2.000.The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 7.151 >2.000 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “using of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method is effective for improving reading comprehension on news item text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 9 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 is accepted.
