THE EFFECTIVENES OF USING TWO STAY TWO STRAY (TSTS) METHOD FOR TEACHING NARATIVE TEXT FOR IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 6 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

English as an international language is really needed by many learners to deliver thought and interact in a variety of situation. People realize that teaching English at this level becomes very important and needs much concern. This Study was conducted under the consideration that eleventh year students of SMA N 6 Purworejo need method to teaching- learning process. One, method in teaching reading was using TSTS. In this thesis, the objective of this study was to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using Two Stay and Two Stray (TSTS) for teaching narrative text for improving Reading Comprehension in the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 6 Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013. The type of this research is quantitative and experimental. The design of this research was a Qoasi experiment design with pre-test and pos- test procedure. The total population is 192 student of the Eleventh Grade of SMA N 6 Purworejo. This research applies a purposive sampling method to get samples. The total samples were 72 students. The samples divided in to two groups; the experimental groups are 36 and the control groups were 36. Then, the data was analyzed using t-test method to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using Two Stay and Two Stray (TSTS) for teaching narrative text for improving Reading Comprehension in the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 6 Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013. The researcher used the writing test; the type of the test is multiple choices consist of 25 items. The computation result of t-test was 4.36 the critical value of t was 1.99 for a = 5% and df = 70.Because t value was higher than the critical value of t (4.36>1.99), Ho was refused and Ha or H alternative was accepted. Thus, that ,hypothesis stated that “ there was effectiveness of using Two Stay and Two Stray (TSTS) for teaching narrative text for improving Reading Comprehension in the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 6 Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013 was accepted. The researcher hopes this thesis will enrich the knowledge and experience for the readers especially in teaching reading. Hopefully, it will teach us to be wiser in learning English.