Abstract:
Reading is one of language elements that is important to be mastered. It is the basic rule of a language. In the fact, the students get many problems in teaching-learning. Paired reading method is one of effective methods to improve students’ reading skill recount text. The objective of this research is to find out whether or not using paired reading method is effective in teaching reading recount text at the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Girimulyo in the academic year of 2015/2016.
This research is a quantitative experimental research. The population of this research is students of the tenth grade of SMK N 1 Girimulyo at the academic year 2015/2016. The number of population is 61 students, and the researcher took 34 students as the sample by using purposive sampling. The sample consisted of two classes. They are X TSM I (17 students) as the control group and X TSM II (17 students) as the experimental group. The researcher used pre-test and post-test to collect the data and then calculate both of them used manual calculation and SPSS 16. The hypothesis analysis used is T-test.
It could be concluded that the distribution both of classes are normal and homogeneous. For hypothesis testing, the researcher used t-test. Based on the t-test calculation, the conclusion is there is positive significant effect of the paired reading method to improve students’ reading skill recount text at tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Girimulyo in the academic year 2015/2016. As the fact, the result of t-value is 3.468. Based on 0.05 significance level, the t-table was 2.032. The computation showed that t-value is higher than t-table that was 3.468 > 2.032. Basedon the result of data analysis the mean of post-test control group was 66.18 while the mean score of experimental group was 73.53. Both of them categorized as good.The mean of pre-test control group was 61.65 and the mean of score post test control group was 66.18. It is increasing of score was 4.53.Besides, the mean of score pre-test experimental group is 66.53 and the mean of score post test is 73.53. Based on the result finding, the researcher concluded that the used of paired reading as a teaching method is effective in teaching reading recount text at the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Girimulyo in the academic year of 2015/2016. It can be shown that the students’ reading ability increased.
