The Effectiveness of Using Summarizing in Teaching Reading to Improve Students’ Achievement on Recount Text at Seventh Grade of SMPN 1 Ngantru Tulungagung in the Academic Year 2013/2014

Gumelar, Ratna (2014) The Effectiveness of Using Summarizing in Teaching Reading to Improve Students’ Achievement on Recount Text at Seventh Grade of SMPN 1 Ngantru Tulungagung in the Academic Year 2013/2014. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: effectiveness, summarizing, reading The reading skill is very important in the educational field, the students need to get more exercise and training in order to have a good reading skill. Reading is useful for language acquisition. Provided that the students more or less understand, what they read, the more they read, the better they get at it One of the techniques used in teaching reading is summarizing. Summarizing is the process of identifying the most salient information. In this technique, the students must make summary using their own language based on the text. The formulation of the research problem were: 1) How is the students’ reading achievement before they are taught using summarizing? 2) How is the students’ reading achievement after they are taught using summarizing? 3) Is there any significant effect before and after they are taught by using summarizing? The purpose of this study were to: 1) find out the students’ reading achievement before they are taught by using summarizing, 2) find out the students’ reading achievement after they are taught by using summarizing, 3) find out the significant effect before and after they are taught by using summarizing on the students’ reading achievement. The research design used by the researcher is experimental research with quantitative approach by using One Group Pretest-Posttest. The population of this study was all students of seventh grade at SMPN 1 Ngantru Tulungagung. The sample was VIIA class consisting 32 students. The research instrument was test. The data analysis using T-test. The result showed that the students’ score in reading before they are taught using summarizing as a technique was 72.10. While the students’ after they are taught using summarizing as a technique was 79.30. The tcount = 5,372 whereas ttable with significant level 5% was 2,045. So, tcount was greater than ttable . This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using summarizing as a technique to teach reading to the VIIA graders at SMPN 1 Ngantru Tulungagung is accepted. Whereas, Ho which states states that there is no significant effect of using summarizing as a technique to teach reading to VIIA graders at SMPN 1 Ngantru Tulungagung is rejected. In other words, summarizing as a technique can be used as an alternative to teach reading to the students at Junior High School level.

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