THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NUMBER HEAD TOGETHER (NHT) TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT
Daftar Isi:
- The objective of this study was to know the effectiveness of Number Head Together (NHT) technique on students’ reading ability of narrative text at the first grade students of SMK Nasional Dawarblandong academic year 2018/201 9 . Population of the research was all of the first grade students. Number of students at the first grade were 50 students that consist of two classes X A and X B . Because all of the population used as a sample, this research used purposive sampling technique. The research result shown that in the pre-test, those two classes had similar score. The mean of the experimental class was 59,36 and the mean of the controlled class was 61,44 too. After the treatment did, the post-test result shown that the mean of ex perimental class was 82,24 and mean of the controlled class was 7 0,88 . It means, the students’ score in the experimental class was higher than the students’ score in the controlled class. To know the effectiveness of this technique, statistical hypothesis was used by using Independent t test. The result was t observation score was 0,000 and t table was 0,05 (0,000 < 0,05 ). It means, t observation was smaller than t table. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Based on the result, it can be con cluded that Number Head Together (NHT) technique was effective on students’ reading ability of narrative text.