The Characteristics of Grammar Translation Method

data is taken and analyzed quantitatively to find the effectiveness of teaching methods. At last, the result of the study was experiment class which taught by using Communicative Language Teaching simply as know with Communicative Approach was more effective than control class taught by using Grammar Translation Method. The calculation of score experiment class was higher than control class. From the explanation, the writer concluded that the application of CLT in teaching descriptive text was more effective than GTM. According the processing data, the writer also got conclusion that to test is higher than tt table. In other words, there was a significant difference between teaching narrative text by using CLT and GTM. The Second study , „The Effectiveness of Teaching Narrative by Using Group Work‟. 39 Here, the writer tried to implement the technique of group work in teaching narrative text compared with the explanatory method to know its effectiveness. The method used in this study was the experimental method which had the objective of this research was to find out whether group work as a strategy of teaching was effective in teaching reading or not. In this research, the writer also tried to find out whether the students who learned reading through group work showed better achievement than the students who learned reading through explanatory method. According to the research that the writer did, it can be concluded that the using of group work in teaching reading was more effective than using of explanatory method in teaching reading control class to the students achievement in the second year students of MAN Batujaya, Karawang. The third study , “The Effectiveness of Learning Reading through Group Work” 40 The design of this study was pre-experimental research because it is intended to describe the effectiveness of learning narrative text through group work. Besides, this study was included in quantitative research; the researcher used some numerical data which analyzed statistically. After the writer did the 39 Neneng Suraeha, The Effectiveness of Teaching Narrative by Using Group Work; An Experiemental Study in the First Year of MAN Batu Jaya Karawang, Jakarta: Perpustakaan Utama UIN Jakarta, 2009, p. vii. 40 Iffah Salimah, The Effectiveness of Learning Reading through Group Work; A Pre- Experimental Study of the Second Grade Students of SMAN 8 South Tangerang, Jakarta: Perpustakaan Utama UIN Jakarta, 2010, p. vii. research at the second grade students of SMAN 8 South Tangerang, she got the result of the research; they are 1 the implementation of group work in learning narrative texts was applied well. It could be known from the result that t o score was higher than t t score obtained from the result of calculating, the alternative hypothesis Ha was accepted and the null hypothesis Ho rejected. It meant that group work was effective in learning narrative text at the second grade students of SMAN 8 South Tangerang, 2 The improvement of students‟ achievement in learning reading before and after using group work was significance enough.