THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENT(TGT) TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMK TARUNA MANDIRI PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The main purpose of this research was to find out whether there is
significant difference of students’ reading comprehension taught by using Teams
Games Tournament (TGT) Technique and without taught by using Teams Games
Tournament (TGT) Technique at SMK Taruna Mandiri Pekanbaru.
The design of this research was an experimental research, which used
quasi-experimental research. The subject of the research was the tenth grade
students at SMK Taruna Mandiri Pekanbaru which total number of population
were 278 students. The researcher used cluster random sampling as a sampling
technique and took two classes as the sample. Class X TKJ
as the experimental
class which consisted of 29 students and X TKJ
2
as the control class which
consisted of 29 students. The instrument of this research was a test.
The data of the research were collected by two kinds of test, pre-test and
post-test. Pretest was used to determine the students’ reading comprehension
before getting the treatment and Post-test was used to determine the students’
reading comprehension after getting the treatment. In analyzing the data, the
researcher adopted Independent and paired sample T-test formula by using SPSS
version 23 and eta square.
Based on the analysis of t-test formula, the sig. value is 0.002. It could be
stated that 0.002<0.50. It means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, while the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Then, the effect size is 0.15 categorized
into large level. The writer concluded that there is significant effect of using
Teams Games Tournament (TGT) Technique on students’ reading comprehension
in narrative text at SMK Taruna Mandiri Pekanbaru.

Key words: Teams Games Tournament Technique, Reading comprehension,
Narrative text.

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