The comparative study between student teams achievement division (STAD) and cooperative integrated reading and composition (CIRC) methods of students’ reading ability in narrative text at grade VIII of SMPN 4 Padangsidimpuan

Sinaga, Seprina Matumona (2015) The comparative study between student teams achievement division (STAD) and cooperative integrated reading and composition (CIRC) methods of students’ reading ability in narrative text at grade VIII of SMPN 4 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research concerned about the comparative study of students’ reading ability by using STAD method and CIRC method at Grade VIII of SMP Negeri 4 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were most of students had lack of vocabulary mastery, lack of motivation, students feel reading is boring, and students were unable to integrate text and context. The purpose of this research was to find out the difference between STAD method and CIRC method of students’ reading ability in narrative text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 4 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 4 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were twenty classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, experiment class (VIII-5) and control class VIII-6). It was taken randomly after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ability in reading narrative text. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the result of experimental class and control class in pretest (72.55>70.3). In post test the result of experiment class and control class was higher than control class (86.5>65). So, it was concluded that STAD Method was better than CIRC Method. The score of tcount was bigger than ttable (34.67 > 2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted, and it was concluded that there was thedifference between students’ reading ability by using STAD and CIRC Methodat Grade VIII of SMP Negeri 4 Padangsidimpuan

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