The Effect of Language Experience Approach to Improve The Students’ Reading Achievement

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out significant effect of blended approach model to the students’ reading achievement. The population of this research was the second year students of SMP Tarbiyah Islamiyah 2016/2017 academic year. The population was 35 students in VIII-A and 35 students in VIIIC. So,the total population was 70 students. The research was taken all as the

sample. The sample was divided into two groups,the firs group namely

experimental group which consists of 35 students was taught by using Language

Experience Approach and the second group namely control group which consists

of 35 students was taught by using conventional method. The instrument of the

research was multiple choices of 20 items. This research was based on

experimental group to collect the data that use to describe and analyse the data

from the students’ answer. After the data has been collected,they were analysed

by using t-test formula. The result of analysis showed that t-observed (6.2921)

was higher than t-table (2.024) with the levelof significant 0.05 and the degree of

freedom (df) = 70. The finding showed that the hypothesis of study is accepted. It

means that using Language Experience Approach given significant effectto the

students reading achievement