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Teaching English in Indonesia was started since elementary school, Based
on this fact, English is important language nevertheless student skill found
difficulties in learning English. Teacher can use method in teaching English to
convey the lesson. Top-Down is one of method that could be used for teaching
reading.
This research is a quantitative experimental research. The population of this
research is 305 students of the seventh grade students of MTs Negeri Kebumen 2
in the academic year 2012/2013. The number of population is 149 students, and
the researcher took 80 students as the sample by using purposive sampling. The
sample consisted of two classes. VII I as a control group (40students) and VII J as
a experimental group (40 students). The researcher used pre-test and post-test in
getting the data and then calculating both of the using tests SPSS. The test analysis
used is t-test.
It could be concluded that the distribution both classes are normal and
homogenous. For hypothesis testing, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result
of the research, the conclusion is “there is positive significant effect of the
student’s perception on the teacher top down approach in teaching reading at
seventh grade of MTs Negeri Kebumen 2 in academic year 2012/2013. It can be
seen from the result of the t value = 2.11 higher than t table= 1.990 with df = 78 at
significance level 5%, From the result, the value is higher than t-table
(2.11>1.990), itindicated that proposed hypothesis is verified. The null hypothesis
is rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted. |
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