The Effectiveness of Using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) as a Method Toward the Students’ Reading Ability of the Eight Grade Students of SMP N 13 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2011/2012

Abstract

This study was conducted under the considerations that eight year students of SMP N 13 Purworejo need method in teaching-learning process. One method in teaching reading was using CIRC. In this thesis, the objectives of the study was to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method in reading comprehension to the eighth grade students of SMP N 13 Purworejo in the academic year of 2011/2012. The type of this research is quantitative and experimental. The design of this research was a true experiment design with pre-test and post-test procedure. The total population is 219 students of the eight grade students of SMP N 13 Purworejo. This research applies a purposive sampling method to get samples. The total sample was 62 students. The sample was divided into two groups; the experimental group was 31 and the control group was 31. Then, the data was analyzed using the t-test method to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method in reading comprehension to the eighth grade students of SMP N 13 Purworejo in the academic year of 2011/2012. There were four steps in conducting this action research; conducting pre-test, conducting treatment, conducting post-test, and evaluating. The computation result of t-test was 4.18. The critical value of t was 2.00 for α = 5% and df = 60. Because t value was higher than the critical value of t (4.18>2.000), H0 was refused and Ha or H alternative was accepted. Thus, the hypothesis stated that “there was effectiveness of using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method in reading comprehension to the eighth grade students of SMP N 13 Purworejo in the academic year of 2011/2012 was accepted. It means that CIRC as a method toward the students’ reading ability of the eighth students of SMP N 13 Purworejo was effective.