The effectiveness of using Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) Method in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMK TI Kartika Cendekia Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out whether there is effectiveness of using Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) method in teaching reading descriptive text at the tenth grade students’ of SMK TI Kartika Cendekia Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016. The type of this research is quantitative and uses experimental research. The design of this research is a true experiment design with pre-test and post-test procedure. The total sample is 64 students divided into two groups, the experimental group are 32 students (X Multimedia) and the control group are 32 students (X TKJ). In collecting data, the researcher uses reading test. The pre-test and post-test of reading consist 20 items of multiple choice. Pre-test is to know the ability the students before the usage TAI as a method and the post-test is to know the ability of students after the usage of TAI as a method. While in analyzing the data, the researcher uses T- test. The result shows that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 62.03 and the mean score of post-test is 75.63. While the mean score of pre-test in control group is 56.88 and the mean score of post-test is 62.81. Then the value of t-test is 6.604 and the t-table is 1.804. 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 ttable, that is 6.604>1.804 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “The use of Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) method is effective in teaching reading descriptive text” is accepted.