The Effect of Using Literacy Integrated Method on the Students’ Reading Achievement In Narrative

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of using literacy integrated method on the students’ reading achievement in narrative text. It was an experimental research. Population of this research was the second year students of Junior High School in SMP NEGERI 13 Binjai Jl. Letjend Jamin Ginting in the academic year 2017/2018 with the total population was 144 students. Two classes were taken by total sampling which divided into two groups, the first group VIII-1 which consisted of 36 students was experimental group which was given treatment by literacy integrated method and second group VIII-2 which consisted of 36 students was control group which was given treatment by using grammar translation method. The instrument of collecting data was multiple choice which consisted of 20 items. Each group was given a pre-test and post-test. After the data had been collected, these were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of analysis showed that t-The t-test was 21.70 and the t-table was 1.66 which was used 0.05 as the significant level of this research. Because the t-test value was higher than t-table (21.70 > 1.66), it showed that the result in t-test was accepted (Ha). Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that there was significant effect of using literacy integrated method on the students’ reading achievement in narrative text. After analyzing the data, the result that the students’ who were taught by literacy integrated method got better achievement that those taught by using grammar translate method because using literacy integrated method (21.70) higher than by using grammar translation method (5.77).