Abstract:
As an international language, English has an important role. By mastering
English, people will be able to communicate around the world. Reading is one of
important skill . To make the teaching of reading at Junior High School
meaningful and really able to raise the students’ reading comprehension ability,
teachers should use an effective method in order to make students interested. The
researcher believes that by using CIRC Method the students will be more active in
the class, more cooperate with each other and easier to motivate in improving
their reading comprehension ability.
The aim of this research is to find out whether teaching narrative text
using CIRC Method is effective to improve students’ reading comprehension
ability of the second grade students at State Junior High School 2 Puring in the
academic year 2011/2012 or not. The type of the research is experimental and
quantitative research. The population of this research is the second grade students
of State Junior High School 2 Puring in the academic year 2011/2012. The sample
of this research is two classes which are divided into experimental group (VIII D,
36 students) and control group (VIII E, 37 students). The sampling technique
which is used is purposive sampling technique. The researcher then analyzed the
data statistically by using t-test.
The result of the research found that the using of CIRC Method is
effective in teaching narrative text to improve the students’ reading
comprehension ability. The highest score was 95 gotten by the student in
experimental group after getting the treatment. Then the lowest score was 45, it
was gotten by the students in control group. After doing the test, the Mean scores
were found that the pre-test mean of the experimental group was 64.17, and the
post-test was 80.13. Moreover, the mean pre-test of the control group was 62.70,
and the post-test was 67.03. The computation of t-test shows that the Ha is
accepted. It can be proven by the value of t – test is 2.28. Then the t – table is
1.671. The computation shows that the t - value is higher than t – table
(2.28>1.671). Thus, the alternative hypothesis can be stated that it is effective to
using CIRC Method in teaching Narrative text to improve students reading
comprehension ability at the second grade students’s of State Junior High School
2 Puring in the academic year 2011/2012.
