The Effect of Applying Snowball Throwing Model Assisted by Audio on the students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out whether there is significant effecton the students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using snowball throwing. The method of the research was the Experimental research method. The population of the study was the tenth grade (X) students of SMA Negeri 1 Kuala at Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan No. 3 Kuala,Kec. Kuala Kab. Langkatin academic year 2017/1018, which consist of two classes. They were X-Bahasa and X-MIA3 class. The number of population were 72 students. The classes were divided into two groups, namely experimental group and control group. All the population was taken as the sample. The experimental group was taught by applying snowball throwing model and the control group was taught by three phase technique. The instrument of research was essay test. The essay test consists of 5 items, each answers have 20 points. The result of this research showed that t-test 2.66 was higher than t-table1.99 in which t-test > t-table. The hypothesis was accepted. It means that there were a significant effect of applying snowball throwing assisted by audio on the students’ reading comprehension