IMPROVING STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING THE NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Johnson (2008:3) states “reading is the practice of using
text to create meaning”. It means that when someone reads a
text, the person should put forward the main idea of the text to
create a conclusion or understanding as a result. Then, the
person also have to understand other purpose of the text he/she
reads.(NHT) is an approach developed by Kagan (1998) to
involve more students in the review of materials covered in a
lesson and to check their understanding of a 8 lesson?s content.
There are four Structured steps of NHT, (1)
Numbering,students are places in groups and each person is
given number;in this case from one to the maximum in each
group, (2) Questioning, the teacher possess a question, (3)
Heads Together, students put their heads together to figure out
the answer, (4) Answering, the teacher calls a specific number
to response as spokesperson for the group. From the computation last time, the researcher obtained
the accounted t observed was 17.35 where the t-table value for
N = 38. With the Df = N – 1 = 38 – 1 = 37 at p = .05 the critical
value of t is 2.021. As the value of t was lowest than t-table ?
17.35 > 2.021, the Null Hypotheses (Ho) was rejected, and the
Alternative Hypotheses (Ha) was accepted, stating that there
was significant difference in the students’ scores before and
after treatments using numbered heads together technique. This
means that teaching reading comprehension in descriptive text
numbered heads together technique to improve reading ability
was effective of the first grade of SMA KP 1 Ciparay.