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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION USING NUMBERED HEAD TOGETHER TECHNIQUE

  (A Classroom Action Research at the Seven th Grade of SMP N 2 Kalibagor in

Academic Year 2012/2013)

  

A THESIS

Submitted to English Departement as a Partial Fulfilment

of the Requirement for S.Pd. Degree

By:

  

FERI MUSTOFA

0801050109

ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO

  

2012/2013

  MOTTO

   Be positive thinking in every time, so that you can be positive feeling

   Never give up, before you do your best because life is strangle.  LAZINESS MAKES A MAN SO SLOW THAT POV ERTY SOON OVERTAKES HIM.

   A HEALTHY MAN HAS A HUNDRED WISHES; A SICK MAN HAS ONLY ONE.

   THE MAN WHO SAYS HE NEVER HAS TIME IS THE LAZIEST MAN.(Lichtenberg)  WE CAN TAKE FROM OUR LIFE UP TO WHAT WE PUT TO IT.

   REAL POWER DOES NOT HIT HARD, BUT STRAIGHT TO THE POINT.

   IF YOU LEAVE EVERYTHING TO YOUR GOOD LUCK, THEN YOU MAKE YOUR LIFE A LOTTERY.

  

DEDICATION

  I would like to dedicate this thesis to:

  1. My beloved Mother and Dad for great affection, prayer, patience, and for everything you have given.

  2. My beloved young brother. Thanks for your great support.

  3. My beloved special someone Devi Novitasari. Thanks for your love and support.

  You are always become my strength.

  4. My beloved best friends Ugow, Simbot, Sulung, Indra, Lancho, Kabul, Cendoel;.

  Thanks for strengthening me with this friendship guys.

  5. My beloved friends in B class English Dept’ 08. Thanks for our togetherness till now. L et’s keep our friendship mates.

  6. All my beloved friends when I did PPL in Ajibarang state Senior High School (Mufid, Fajar, Imron, Gunawan, Titis, Irna, Lele, Cenil, Dewi, Mona, Listika, Desis, Totow, Erlin, Qori).

  7. My beloved friends in Oblong boarding house. Thank you for your motivation.

  ABSTRACT

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION USING

  NUMBERED HEAD TOGETHER TECHNIQUE (A Classroom Action Research at the Seventh Grade of SMP N 2 Kalibagor in Academic Year 2012/2013).

  By: FERI MUSTOFA

  0801050109

This research aimed to improve the students’ reading comprehension using

  Numbered Head Together technique. It used Classroom Action Research, which was conducted at VII A Grade of SMP N 2 Kalibagor in Academic Year 2012/2013 as the subject of the research. The numbers of the students were 30 students comprised of 13 males and 17 females. This study was done from November 2012 until February 2013.

  The writer worked collaboratively with the English teacher in the class. The Classroom Action Research was carried out based on the Kemmis and McTaggart design. The writer took two cycles with two actions in each cycle. Each cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The writer applied both qualitative data and quantitative data that were taken from questionnaire, observation, reading test, and documentation.

  The result of the research showed that there was a significant improvement in the students’ reading comprehension after implementing the Classroom Action Research using Numbered Head Together technique. The average score of the students in reading was 38.17% in test (pre-test and post-test). The mean of the student s’ reading test score was as follows; pre test showed 47.50%, Cycle One showed 58.00%, and Cycle Two showed 85.67%. Therefore, the improvement of mean from pre-test until Cycle Two was 27.67%. It was supported by the improvement of observation and questionnaire result. The data of observation showed that the average of the students’ improvement in reading activities in Cycle One was 32.50% and Cycle Two was 59.15%. Then, the improvement from Cycle One to Cycle Two was 45.83

  %. The data from the students’ questionnaire which were gained from the ten questions showed that the students gave positive response to the implementation of Numbered Head Together technique in their reading activities. The average of the st udents’ questionnaire was 79.30%. Those data proved that Numbered Head Together technique could improve the students’ reading comprehension and the students’ reading activities. It means that the technique could solve the problem reading class.

  

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.

  Alhamdulillahirobil ’alamin. Firstly, thanks to Allah SWT for his blessing and guidance, so that the writer could finish this thesis. This is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to get S.Pd. Degree at the English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  The writer wishes to express her great appreciation and gratefulness to:

  1. Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd., as the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty on Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  2. Endang Kusrini, S.Pd. M.Hum., as the Head of English Departement of Teacher Training English and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.

  3. Endang Kusrini, S.Pd. M.Hum. and Saefurrohman S.Pd, M.Pd., as the first and second consultant who have always guideed me wisely and patiently during writing process of this thesis.

  4. The headmaster of SMP N 2 Kalibagor for gave me permission and helping me did the research in his school.

  5. The English teacher of SMP N 2 Kalibagor for helping the researcher did the research in his school.

  6. All of the lectures who have delivered their very valuable and useful knowledge for my life.

  7. All of the VII A grade students of SMP N 2 Kalibagor who have given good participation in this study.

  The researcher hopes that this thesis would be useful for the readers. Finally, the researcher believes that this thesis is still far from being the perfect one.

  Therefore, the researcher would appreciate gladly to invite constructive, criticisms and also suggestions from the readers. The researcher hopes that this thesis will give valuable things especially for educational field and also those who are interested.

  Purwokerto, February 2013 Feri Mustofa

  

TABLE OF CONTENT

  TITLE ............................................................................................................... i APPROVAL ...................................................................................................... ii LEGALIZATION .............................................................................................. iii MOTTO ............................................................................................................ iv DEDICATION................................................................................................... v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................. vi ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................... vii TABLE OF CONTENT ..................................................................................... ix LIST OF TABLE ............................................................................................... xii LIST OF FIGURE ............................................................................................. xiii LIST OF APPENDICES .................................................................................... xiv

  CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study ..............................................................................

  1 B. Reason for Choosing the Topic .....................................................................

  3 C. Problem of the Research ...............................................................................

  3 D. Aim of the Research .....................................................................................

  4 E. Clarification of Terms ...................................................................................

  4 F. Contribution of Research ..............................................................................

  4 CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW A. Reading ....................................................................................................

  6 1. The Definition of Reading ..................................................................

  6 2. The Importance of Reading .................................................................

  7 3. The Purpose of Reading ......................................................................

  8 4. The Components of Reading Comprehension .....................................

  10 5. Teaching Reading ...............................................................................

  11 B. Narrative Text ...........................................................................................

  14 1. The Nature of Narrative Text ..............................................................

  14

  2. Generic Structure of Narrative Text ....................................................

  14 3. Language Features of Narrative Text ..................................................

  15 4. Type of Narrative Text .......................................................................

  15 5. Assesing Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text ..........................

  17 6. Evaluation of Reading ........................................................................

  19 C. Cooperative Learning................................................................................

  20 1. Definition of Cooperative Learning ....................................................

  20 2. The Definitions of Number Head Together .........................................

  21 3. Teaching Reading Using Number Head Together ...............................

  22 4. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Number Head Together .........

  24 D. Basic Assumption .....................................................................................

  24 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD A. Research Method ......................................................................................

  25 B. Setting of Research ...................................................................................

  25 1. Subject of the Research ..........................................................................

  25 2. Place and Time ......................................................................................

  26 C. Design of the Research .............................................................................

  26 D. Method of Collecting Data ........................................................................

  30 E. Technique for Analyzing Data...................................................................

  34 1. The Qualitative Data .............................................................................

  34 2. The Quantitative Data ...........................................................................

  35 F. Criteria of the Action Success ...................................................................

  37 CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION A. The Result of the Result .........................................................................

  38 1. The Implementation in Cycle One ......................................................

  38 2. The Implementation in Cycle Two ......................................................

  51 B. Discussion ..............................................................................................

  61 1. Test Result .........................................................................................

  63 2. Observation Result .............................................................................

  63

  3. Interview Result .................................................................................

  64 4. Questionnaire Result ..........................................................................

  65 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A. Conclusion .............................................................................................

  67 B. Suggestion ..............................................................................................

  68 REFERENCES APPENDICES

  LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Schedule of the Research ....................................................................

  26 Table 2 The Indicator of the Teacher’s Activities .................................................

  31 Table 3 The Indicator of the Students’ Activity ............................................... 32 Table 4 The List of Questions in Questionnaire ...............................................

  33 Table 5 The Obs ervation Result of the Studemts’ Activities ............................ 46 Table 6 The Ob servation Result of the Teacher’s Activities ........................... 47 Table 7

  Evaluation Result of Students’ reading Comprehension in Cycle 1 ..... 48 Table 8 The Observation Resul t of the Students’ Activities in Cycle 2 ............ 58 Table 9 The Observation Resul t of the Teacher’s Activities in Cycle 2 ............. 59 Table 10 The Summary of the Evaluation Result in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2...........

  61 Table 11 The Student s’ Improvement in Reading Test ...................................... 63

Table 12 The Average Improvement of the Stude nts’ Activities in Each Cycle . 64

  Table 13 The Post Questionnaire Result ............................................................

  65

  LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Research Design Arranged by Kemmis and McTaggart........................

  27 Figure 2 Schema of Analyzing Data ...................................................................

  35

  Appendix A The Result of Pre Test The Result of Post Test 1 The Result of Post Test 2 The Result of Test in Cycle 1 The Result of Test in Cycle 2

  Appendix B The List of Questions in Questionnaire The Questionnaire Result The Observation Sheet of the T eacher’s Activities The Observation Result of the T eacher’s Activities in cycle 1 The Observation Result of the T eacher’s Activities in cycle 2 The Observation Sheet of S tudents’ Activities The Observation Result of S tudents’ Activities in Cycle 1

The Observation Result of S tudents’ Activities in Cycle 2

  Appendix C Lesson Plan Pre Test Post Test 1 Post Test 2 The Answer Keys

  Appendix D The Photos as a Documentation of the Research Letters