The Validity and Realibility of Instrument The Technique of Data Collection

- : There is a significant progress in using directed reading activity in improving the students’ reading skill of descriptive text at seventh grade of MTs Al-Ihsan Pamulang, Tangerang Selatan. = Null Hypothesis = Alternative Hypothesis = Students descriptive text achievement, which were taught with Directed Reading Activity. = Students descriptive text achievement, which were taught without Directed Reading Activity. And then, the criteria used as follows: - If t-test ≤ t-table in significant degree or a alpha of 0.05 5, null hypothesis was accepted and alternative hypothesis was rejected. It meant that the rates of the means score of the experiment group were higher than the controlled group. The using of Directed Reading Activity DRA wa s effective on students’ reading ability on descriptive text. - If t-test t-table in significant degree or a alpha of 0.05 5, null hypothesis was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted. It meant that the rates of the means score of the experiment group were same as or lower than the controlled group. The using of Directed Reading Activity DRA was not effective on students’ reading ability on descriptive text. 30 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING This chapter focuses on the result of research finding related to the study. It discusses about the description of data, the analysis of data, the testing of hypothesis, and interpretation of the result.

A. The Description of Data

This part explains general description of data that the writer got from the research. The data were collected from students’ score in pre-test and post-test of both experiment class and control class. After conducting the research, the writer obtained the data. There was posttest score for each class. The experiment class and the control class were taught with different technique in teaching reading. The experimental class was taught the descriptive text using directed reading activity, whereas the control class without used directed reading activity.

1. The Data of Pre-test in Experiment Class and Control Class

a. The Data of Pre-test in Experiment Class Based on the data gathered from pre-test in the experiment class, it could be seen that from 40 students in the experiment. The data were shown that the lowest score achieved by students is 50 and the highest score in pre-test is 90 see appendix 9. Table 4.1 The Distribution of Student Pre-test Frequency of Experiment Class Interval Frequency Cumulative Frequency 50 – 56 7 17.5 7 57 – 63 7 17.5 14 64 – 70 8 20 22 71 – 77 6 15 28