The Effectiveness of Using Numbered Head Together method in Teaching Reading Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 2 Nusawungu in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out whether or not of using numbered head together method is effective in teaching reading comprehension at eight grade of SMP N 2 Nusawungu in academic year of 2015/2016. The type of the research is quantitative research. The population of the research is the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Nusawungu in the academic year of 2015/2016. The sample is 66 students. Sample is taken using purposive sampling technique. In collecting the data, the researcher made instrument, consulted it to the expert, and dividing class VIIIC as a control and class VIIIA as a experimental. The writer used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, the researcher gave treatment for experimental group using Numbered Head Together method and common way for control group. After getting the data, the researcher analized the data using t-test separated variance. The result shows that the mean score of post-test of experimental group is higher than the mean score of post test of control group (82.27>72.42). in addition, the result of t-value is 5.324. Then the researcher consults the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 2.036. It shows that t-value is higher that t-table (5.324>2.036). It means that using numbered head together method in teaching reading narrative text at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Nusawungu in the academic year of 2015/2016 is effective.