THE EFFECT OF APPLYING HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE TO STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

The objectives of the study is to find out the effect of applying Herringbone technique to students reading comprehension on narrative text. The scope is focused on reading comprehension by using Herringbone technique. The research was conducted at MTs Al-Azhar, be conducted students were involved in this research, there were 106 students, the sample of this research were VIII-A consisted of 25 students as experimental group and VIII-C consists of 25 students as control group, the researcher used the level of significance 0.05 in which the hypothesis was approved if Sign < a with ability of error only 5%, using the normality test and the Homogeneity Test. The result of this study was the Herringbone Method (X) variable has a value of tcount (4,112) > ttable (2,010). While the significant value was smaller than the probability value of 0.05 or a significant value of 0.001 <0.05. Thus, it concluded that the Herringbone Method (X) variable had a positive and significant effect on Reading Comphrension at = 5%. The student’s problem, they are lack vocabularies. They do not understand and comprehend the text well, not get the point of the text itself, and do not know the correct technique of reading.