THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF USING NUMBER HEAD TOGETHER (NHT) AND COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY

Authors

  • Pramudita Dewi Cahya SMP Negeri 1 Melinting
  • Lilis Sholihah English Department of FKIP UM Metro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24127/pj.v6i2.1014

Keywords:

NHT, CIRC and Reading Ability

Abstract

Reading is one of the four language skills that has important role for the students. Every students must have good achievement in reading. That is the reason why the reading ability should be built as early as possible. The research was proposed to know the distinction between students reading ability instructed by NHT and CIRC at the ninth grade of SMPN 1 Melinting to know which one more effective between NHT and CIRC. This design is quantitative research and the researcher give pre-test and post-test to the students. The researcher used cluster random sampling with the population of the students about 117 students. From the four classes in ninth grade, the researcher took two classes as the samples. The samples are 9.1 as Experimental class and 9.2 as the control class. Based on the result of research, there is distinction between NHT and CIRC. And the last result show that NHT is more effective than CIRC toward  reading ability in report Text  in SMP N 1 Melinting.

Author Biographies

Pramudita Dewi Cahya, SMP Negeri 1 Melinting

a junior English Teacher

Lilis Sholihah, English Department of FKIP UM Metro

A Senior English Lecturer at English Department of FKIP UM Metro

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Published

2017-11-02