THE EFFECT OF USING NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER (NHT) TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE TENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 TAMBANG

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The quasi experimental research was conducted based on the problems
faced by students in reading comprehension of descriptive text. The problems
were: identifying the main idea, generic structure, communicative purpose,
meaning of vocabulary and identifying detail information. So, the researcher was
interested in carrying out the research about these problems by using Numbered
Heads Togeteher (NHT) technique. The Purpose of this research was to determine
whether there is any significance difference between taught and without being
taught by using NHT technique on students’ reading comprehension at the tenth
grade of State Senior High School 1 Tambang. The design of this research was a
quasi experimental design. In collecting the data, the researcher used multiple
choices test, to find out the students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text.
To analyze the data, the researcher adopted independent sample T-test formula by
using SPSS 20 version. The researcher found that there was a significant
difference taught by using NHT technique on students’ reading comprehension at
tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Tambang, where to shows 5.274 in the
significance level of 5% was 2.00, and in the level of 1% was 2.65. It can be
shown by 2.00<5.274> 2.65. Significance was 0.000 < 0.05. So, null hypothesis
(Ho) was rejected, and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.
Key Words: The Effect, NHT Technique, Descriptive text

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