The Effect of Applying Choral Reading (CR) Method on the Students’ Achievement in Pronouncing Words of the Poems

Abstract

This research was carried out to 1) find out the effect of applying Choral Reading (CR) method on the students‟ achievement in pronouncing words of the poems. 2) find out to study difficulties in pronouncing words of the poems applying Choral reading (CR) method. This research has been conducted at SMP SUTAN OLOAN MEDAN, at Jalan Sutan Oloan Medan No 1. The population of this research were the nineth grade students of SMP SUTAN OLOAN MEDAN academic year 2017/2018. There were one classes in this school with total number 25 students and all of the students were taken as the sample. They were 25 students from class IX as experimental group which taught by applying Choral Reading (CR) Method. The Instrument for collecting data in this research was oral test where students were asked to pronouncing words of the poems which use pretest and post-test. The total of right answer is 100. The material of test was taken from internet (English pronunciation) for grade IX junior high school. The test is administrating for the following reason. The test was divided in two sessions, the first was pre-test before treatment. The second was post-test after the treatment. The result of this research showed that tobserved value was higher than ttable in which tobs > ttable (12.32 > 2.06). The hypothesis was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of applying Choral Reading (CR) Method on the students achievement in pronouncing words of the poems.