The Effect of Circle Poster Method to Increase the Students’ Narrative Text Achievement Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out Circle poster strategy of the students’ reading comprehension ability. The population of this research was eight grade of SMP N 1 Simpang Kiri at Academic Year 2017/2018. It consisted of two classes included of experimental group was 40 students and control group was 40 students as respondents. This research was conducted by using quantitative research. The instrument of research was test including pre-test and post-test. The result showed that SDx = 34.69 SDy = 12.5 SE M1 = 5.55 SE M2 = 2.01 SE M1-M2 = 2.74. The t-table with the level significance of α 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) → n1= 80-1 =79 was 2.00. From the result analyzed,

t-test was 7.8 and the t-table is 2.00. It means that the t-test value was higher than the t-table or 7.8> 2.00 and ttest

hypothesis was accepted (Ha). Therefore, it concluded that circle poster strategy can improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension especially in narrative text. In other words, the result of this research, it can be concluded that circle poster can effect students’ reading comprehension. Indeed, it is recommended for teachers to apply this strategy in teaching English, especially in teaching reading