THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY (DRTA) IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 3 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Abstract

international in the world communication. There are four aspects of language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) that must be mastered by students include reading skills. Method is needed to support teaching-learning in the classroom. The researcher chooses directed reading thinking activity as learning method. Directed Reading Thinking Activity is teaching strategy that guides students in making predictions about the text and then reading to confirm or refuse the predictions. The purpose of Directed Reading Thinking Activity is technique to improve students reading comprehension skills, determine the purpose for reading, use prediction when reading text, and make decisions based on readings. So, it can facilitate the students’ mind to read narrative text. The objective of the study is to describe whether there is any effectiveness of using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) or not in teaching reading to SMK Negeri 3 Purworejo in the academic year 2014/2015. In collecting data, the researcher uses test as a instrument. The number of the sample is 62. As the experimental group, the researcher uses class XI BB 1 which consists of 32 students. Meanwhile as control group, the researcher takes 30 students of class XI BB 4. The researcher then statistically analyzed the data by using SPSS 20.0. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling in taking the sample. The reason of the researcher to choose this sampling is because of the time limitation. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test, and to analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of the research finds that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 66.750 and the mean score of post-test is 80.125. The mean score of pre-test in control group is 69.733 and the mean score of post-test is 76.533. Then the value of t-test is 2.147 and the t-table is 2.000. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 2.147>2.000 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “using directed reading thinking activity in teaching reading in narrative text is effective” is accepted.