THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TO INCREASE THE STUDENTS’ READING ALOUD ABILITY FOR THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 1 KLIRONG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objectives of this research is to find out whether teaching reading using Phonetic Transcription is effective to increase the students’ reading aloud ability. This research is a quantitative research with experimental because the researcher does experiment and gives treatment to find out the effectiveness of using phonetic transcription to increase the students’ reading aloud ability. The researcher took 60 students as a sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used class VIII.3, which consists of 31 students. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 29 students of class VIII.1. Then the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes. The researcher taught reading by using phonetic transcription to the experimental group and commonly way to the control group. And then the researcher analyzed the data using t-test separated polled variance. After analyzing data, the researcher concludes that teaching reading using phonetic transcription is effective to increase the students’ reading aloud ability. As the fact, the result of t-value is 6.345. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the value of t-table is 2.000. The result of the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, it is 6.345 > 2.000. Another facts show that the media used is effective. It is shown by the mean of the experimental group that is higher than the mean of the control group. In the experimental group, the mean is 76.16 and the control group is 68.86. Based on the result finding, it can be shown that the students’ reading aloud ability increased. The students more interested to read the text because they become know the phonetic transcription of the words. They can improve their pronunciation and improve their speaking ability. The researcher hopes that this thesis would help the teacher, the students, and the other researcher.