The effect of make a match technique on students’ reading comprehension at XI grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Annisa Nur Habibie A.R. (2017) The effect of make a match technique on students’ reading comprehension at XI grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the effect of Make a Match technique on students’ reading comprehension at XI grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. The students’ problems in reading comprehension were: 1) Most of the students still get low grade with averages was 60. 2) Most of students did not understand the text that the students read. They just read the text without comprehending the text. 3) Most of students easy to feel bored when they learnt about the English text. Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s technique also became a problem in learning English. The teacher still used the conventional teaching and did not have variation in teaching reading. The purpose of this research was to know whether there is the significant effect of Make a Match technique on students’ reading comprehension at XI grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. The method used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI MIA 3 as experimental class that consisted of 40 students and XI MIA 4 as control class that consisted of 40 students. It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of experimental class after using Make a Match technique was higher than control class. Mean score of experimental class before using Make a Match technique was 64.13 and mean score after using Make a Match technique was 75.23 and it had gain 11.10. The effect of Make a Match technique on students’ reading comprehension was 3.009 with tcount was higher than ttable (3.009 > 2.000). It meant that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of Make a Match technique on students’ reading comprehension at XI grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan.

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