were 70 in X4 and 71 in X3. After the sample was homogeneous, the researcher used lottery drawing to choose which class that would be used as
the experimental class I and experimental class II. So, the class that used as experimental class I was X4 applying information transfer and the class used
as experimental class II was X3 applying translation, meanwhile the class chosen as try out class was X5.
D. Research Procedures
The procedures of the research were as follows:
1. Determining the Samples of the Research
The first step in the research was selecting the class as the sample. The researcher took three classes, as try out class, and experimental classes. The
class used as try out class was X5, X4 as experimental class I and X3 as experimental class II by lottery drawing.
2. Determining the Research Instrument
The instrument of this research was reading test that consisted of a pretest and posttest. The tests were in the form of multiple choice tests consisted of 20
items. In giving the treatments, reading texts that had been used were taken from English book for the first year students of SMA and authentic materials,
such as taken from magazines and internet. There were three reading texts used in this research. The type of the text used was descriptive text with topic;
describing famous people, famous places, and buildings. Both of the item of
pretest and the posttest were the same, but in different arrangement in item test and options.
3. Administering the Tryout Test
The researcher conducted try out test in order to find out whether the test items that used in the research were good or not for validity, reliability, level
of difficulty, and discrimination power. In this test, the researcher provided 50 items of multiple choices tests with five
options a, b, c, d or e, one was correct answer and the rest were distracters. The scoring system was that the load of each correct answer was 2 points.
Therefore, if one participant answered all the items correctly, shehe got 100 points.
The researcher used split-half method to measure the reliability which requires her to divide the test into same groups, first half and second half.
Some items were dropped and revised to administer in pretest and posttest. The try out test consisted of three easy items, 29 average items and 18 difficult
items. Meanwhile, for discrimination indexes, eight items were bad, 15 items were poor, ten items were good, 14 items were satisfactory, and three items
were excellent. For detail information, see Appendix 4.
Items that have average remark in the level of difficulty and excellent or satisfactory or good for the discrimination power were selected used for the
test 2,4,6,9,11,12,15,22,25,27,28,29,30,38,40. Moreover, the items that were
easy and difficult but had excellent, satisfactory and good discrimination were revised. The revised items were 8,10,14,21,39. The items with negative and
zero discrimination power were dropped and also the items that were easy and difficult in the level of difficulty and also had poor discrimination power were
dropped. Eventually, the items that were administered for both of the pretest and posttest were 20 items.
4. Administering the Pretest
