The Effectiveness of Using Think Aloud Strategy Toward Students Reading Achievement in Narrative text Study at 8th Grade SMP Islam Durenan

Nikmah, FaritDatun (2014) The Effectiveness of Using Think Aloud Strategy Toward Students Reading Achievement in Narrative text Study at 8th Grade SMP Islam Durenan. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: Effectiveness, Think Aloud, Reading comprehension English has four skills, they are speaking, writing, reading, listening. One of those skills is reading, which is perceives a written text in order to understand its contents. To understand the contents of the text, the students faced many problems. Some of them don’t understand about the meaning of the words and lack in vocabularies. Some of them think reading is boring activity. The teaching and learning procces in the class only read the text and answer the question bassed on it. This condition and situation caused some of the students feel bored when they joint in the reading class. As an English teacher, we have to be able to find an interesting technique or method in teaching English especially in mastering reading comprehension. The teacher should be able to find and use the right technique or method which is suitable with the student’s condition. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested to find out the effects of treatment with Think Aloud Strategy in teaching reading comprehension of the second grade students at SMP Islam Durenan Trenggalek in the academic year 2013/2014. The formulations of the researcher problem were: 1) how is student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text before being taught using think aloud strategy? 2) How is the student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text after being taught using think aloud strategy? 3) Is there any significant effect before and after being taught using think aloud strategy? The purpose of the researcher were to: 1) To know the student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text before using Think Aloud Strategy. 2) To know the student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text after using Think Aloud Strategy. 3) To know whether there is significant influence between the student’s achievement that are taught before and after using Think Aloud Strategy in reading comprehension of narrative text. Research Method: 1) This research used pre-experimental research design with quantitative approach. In this research the experimental research design used in One-Group Pretest-Posttest. 2) The Population was all the students of second grade of SMP Islam DurenanTrenggalek consist of 147 students. 3) The sample was VIII class consisting 36 students. 4) The research instrument was test (pre-test and post-test). 5) The data analysis was using T-test. The result showed that the students mean in teaching reading comprehension before taught using think aloud strategy is only 56.11. while the students Mean in teaching reading comprehension after the being taught using think aloud strategy is 72.50. it was improved, with the t-test analysis that used by researcher, the result of significant value is (0.000), with the significant level 0.05. And the result of t observation 5.30 with t table is 2.042. By comparing the “significant value” that the significant value is smaller than significant level (significant value < significant level). It meant that Ha which states that there is significant effect of using think aloud strategy on student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text is accepted. Whereas Ho states that there is no significant effect of using Think aloud strategy on student’s achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text is rejected. In other word, it can be concluded that think aloud strategy is effective to teach English lesson especially for reading comprehension at junior high school of SMP Islam DurenanTrenggalek

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