Abstract:
This study deals with the effect of applying audiolingual method by using fairy
tales to the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. The objective of the
study is to find out whether this technique significantly affected the students’
achievement in reading narrative text. This study was conducted by using
experimental design. The population of the study was the students of grade VII of
SMP SWASTA HARAPAN MANDIRI Medan in the academic year 2017/2018.
There were two classes as the of this research that is VII A (the control group) and
VII B (the experimental group). The control group (VII A) was taught by the
conventional method and the experimental group (VII B) was taught by using
fairy tales technique. The data of the study were obtained from the students’ score
of reading test. To determine the data, the researcher used Sugiyono 2015
formula. There are two data that used in this research, they are pre-test and posttest.
The
data
were
analyzed
by
applying
t-test
formula.
After
analyzing
the
data,
the
result
of
the
study
showed
that
t-value
was
higher
than
t-table.
The
result
of
this
research showed that t- value was higher than t-table in which t-value > ttable, 9
> 1.67155
bat
level of
significant
0,05
and
degree
of
freedom
(df)
is 60.
It
can
concluded that audiolingual method significantly affects on the students’
achievement in reading narrative text or in other words the hypothesis is accepted.
