The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Technique on Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension at English Department of FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar

Abstract

This study was aimed to find out the effect of using reciprocal teaching technique on students’ ability in reading comprehension in narrative text at English Department of FKIF UHN Pematangsiantar. The researcher uses some theories in this study, they are Grabe, W. (2009), Palincsar, A. S. & Brown, A. L. (1984), Klingner, J.K., Vaughn, S. et al (2007), Klingner,mVaughn, et al. (2007), Knapp and Watkins. (2005), Oczkus, L. D. (2005), Omari, H. A. &
Weshah, H. A. (2010), Aebersold, J. A. & Field, M. L. (1997), Alderson, C. J. (2000), Attaprechakul, D. Author .(2013). The method of this research was based on experimental design. The data for this research was collected from English Department students in academic year 2016/2017. By using cluster random sampling technique, two classes had been chosen as sample of the research, they were as experimental group and as control group. Each class
consisted 36 students. The data was collected by using pre-test and post-test. The instrument of the research was reading comprehension. The validity and reliability of test had been analyzed by using SPSS 22. The last result was independent sample t-test to analyze whether there is effect of using reciprocal teaching technique on students’ ability in reading comprehension in narrative text or not. After doing research, the result of post-test mean of experimental group is 80.61 with standard deviation is 6.026 and post-test mean of control group is 68.03 with standard deviation is 4.124. From the post-test result, it stated that sample was distributed normally and had homogeneous variance. With the degree of freedom (df) is 70 and level of significance is 5 % (0.05), from t-test result which is higher than t-table, where value of is 10.325 > is 1.666, it can be concluded that there is significant effect of using reciprocal teaching technique on students’ability in reading comprehension in narrative text at English Department students.