THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING COOPERATIVE SCRIPT TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 23 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/ 2013

Abstract

Teaching language, in this case English is not an easy thing since the teaching of every aspect is related one to other. The students who want to learn a foreign language, sometime they will meet with all kind of learning problems. As a matter of fact, many students of junior high school consider that English is very difficult subject to learn. Teacher can use method in teaching English to convey the lesson. Cooperative script is one of method that could be used for teaching narrative script. The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using Cooperative Script method for teaching narrative text on the eight grade students of SMP N 23 Purworejo. In this research the researcher took two classes as the sample. The writer use experimental research. One class was experimental group (31 students) and the other was control group (31 students) So, the number of sample were 62 students. While, the instrument used in this thesis, was reading test. To collecting the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, the researcher gave treatment for experimental group using Cooperative Script. After getting enough data, the researcher calculated the data using t-test polled and variance. Based on the computation, the mean score of experimental group was 77.41 and the mean of control group was 65.96. The t-value was consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It showed that the t-table is 2.00 and the tvalue was 6.77 it means that t-value was higher than t-table so, it can be concluded that the use of using Cooperative Script for teaching narrative text at the eight grade students of SMP N 23 Purworejo on the academic year 2012/2013 is effective.