The Effectiveness of Using Silent Card Shuffle Strategy (SCSS) for Teaching Reading Narrative Text at The Eighth Grade of SMP N 1 Kepil in The Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe whether using Silent Card Shuffle Strategy is effective or not for teaching reading narrative text for students at the Eighth Grade of SMP N 1 Kepil in the Academic Year of 2015/2016. This research is quantitative research with an pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test. In this research the subject of research is the students Eighth Grade of SMP N 1 Kepil in the Academic Year of 2015/2016. The researcher took 32 students (VIII A) of one class as sample from 160 students as population. Then researcher gave pre-test and post-test to the samples. The instrument use in this thesis is reading test. The researcher used pre-test and posttest in getting the data. Before conducting post-test, the researcher used Silent Card Shuffle Strategy (SCSS) to teach reading narrative text. The researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of this research shows that the mean score of pre-test and posttest is 55.88 and 85.63. The result of t-value is 13.954, based on the 0.05 significance level, the value of t-table is 2.039, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, which is 13.954>2.039. Moreover, Silent Card Shuffle Strategy is effective for teaching reading narrative text. It can be seen from gained mean score pre-test and post-test. Mean score of post-test is higher than mean score of pre-test. So, it can be concluded that the use of Silent Card Shuffle Strategy is effective for teaching reading narrative text at the Eighth Grade of SMP N 1 Kepil in the Academic Year of 2015/2016.