A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TAUGHT USING MAGIC DISC AND WITHOUT MAGIC DISC AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ OF SMP NEGERI 15 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

English is an international language which is really important to learn. In fact, English is studied in almost all of the school level in Indonesia. Not only learned in junior or senior high school level but also in the elementary school level. However, most of Indonesian students need to master English, especially reading. Reading is probably the most important skill that need to make success in our school and pass exams or test for students who have a weak reader.The objectives of this study is to find out whether there is any significant difference of the students taught by magic disc and without magic disc in reading descriptive text at the seventh grade students’ of SMP Negeri 15 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The researcher applied quantitative with a comparative method. The population of the research is the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 15 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The researcher takes 64 students; class VII D and E. The researcher uses a purposive sampling technique because of the limited time. The researcher used pre-test and post-test in this research as a research instrument. In technique of analyzing data, mean and standard deviation are used in the descriptive analysis, while test of normality, homogeneity and t' test is used in the inferential analysis. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the t-test is consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. The main results of this research are (1) taught by magic disc score can be categorized as excellent level with M=88.13 and SD=7.147; (2) taught without magic disc score can be categorized as excellent level with M=87.13 and SD=9.3; (3) the obtained t-value was 6.57, and t-table was 2.000. It means that t-value was higher that t-table. Thus, the hypothesis showed that there is no significant difference taught bymagic disc and without magic disc in reading descriptive textat seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 15 Purworejo. Based on the result, it means that the hypothesis is rejected