Abstract:
This research dealts with The Effect of Applying PAIRS-CHECK Technique
Assisted by Picture Series as a Teaching Media on the Students’ Reading
Achievement, especially on narrative text. The objective of the research was to
find the effect of applying PAIRS-CHECK Technique assisted by Picture Series
as a teaching media on the students’ reading achievement in narrative text. This
research was conducted at MTS PROYEK KANDEPAG, Jl. K.L Yos Sudarso
KM.13,5 Martubung, Medan Labuhan, Sumatera Utara of 2017/2018 academic
year. The population of this research was the VIII grade students which consisted
of 2 clases, VIII-1 and VIII-2 with total number of students 60. By using Total
Sampling Technique it was VIII-1 (30) and VIII-2 (30), with 60 students. VIII-1
class was Experimental class taught by PAIRS-CHECK Technique and class VIII2 class was Control class taught by Lectering Method. Multiple choice test with
20 items were administrated to the students. The researcher gave a pre-test,
treatment and post-test to both groups. Having collected the data by using T-test
formula, the result showed that t-test was 12.21 and t-table was 2.002. The fact
showed that t-test was greather than t-table (12.21 > 2.002)s. (The null hypothesis
or Ho was rejected and the alternative hypothesis Ha was accepted). The result of
this research concluded that there was a significant effect of applying PAIRSCHECK Tecnique on the students’ reading achievement.
