The Effectiveness of Using Poster in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade Students of MAN Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to describe the students’ reading comprehension ability of descriptive text and to find out wheter the use of poster in teaching reading is effective or not in reading comprehension of descriptive text at the tenth grade students of MAN Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. The population of the research is the tenth grade students of MAN Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 which consists of 95 students and the amount of the sample is 54 students. Sample was taken by using purposive sampling technique. The independent variable of the research was used Poster and the dependent variable of the research was the students’ reading ability. The instrument that was used to get the data is multiple choice test. The mean score of pre-test of control group was 60.4; meanwhile, the mean score of post-test of control group was 64.4 categorized sufficient. On the other side, the mean score of pre-test of experimental group was 61.6 and the mean score of post-test of experimental group was 71.3 categorized good. The result shows that using Poster in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text at the tenth grade sudents of MAN Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 is effective. It can be seen from the result of t-table and t-value. The ttable is 2.01 and the obtained t-value is 3.47. Ho is refused and Ha is accepted because the t-value is higher than the critical value on the table (3.47>2.01). It can be concluded that using Poster is effective in teaching reading descriptive text at the tenth grade students of MAN Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017. The hypothesis is accepted.