THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TASK-BASED TEACHING IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP N 1 KAJORAN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Abstract

important role for communication in making relationship with others from different countries, including Indonesia. English is also as a subject learned school in Indonesia which has four basic skills. They are reading, speaking, writing, and listening. Among the four English skills, Reading is one of the four language skills that are very important in learning English. Reading is a kind of activity to comprehend the writer’s ideas or the way the writer communicates with readers by way of the written or printed words. Teaching reading especially in teaching reading narrative text can use many kinds of methods applied by the teacher. One of the teaching methods is task-based teaching. The aim of this research is to know whether team accelerated instruction ( TBT ) method is effective or not in teaching reading narrative text on the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kajoran in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the researcher took two classes as the sample. One class was experimental group and other as control group. Each class consists of 30 students. So, the number of sample was 60 students. While the instrument that was used in this thesis, was test. In including the data, the give treatment for experimental group using task-based teaching method and common way for control group. After getting enough data, the researcher calculated the data using t-test polledvariance. Based on the previous computation, the mean score of experimental group was 69.17 and the mean control group was 72.50 to see wether the hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the t-value was consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It shows that the t-table was 2.000 and the t-value was 2.543It means that t-value was higher than t-table, that was 2.543> 2.000. So, it can be concluded that the use of Task-Baesd Teaching in Teaching Reading Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade of SMP N 1 Kajoran Academic Year 2013/2014 is effective.