The Effect of Applying Pair Checks Method on The Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This research was carried out to investigate the effect of applying pair checks method on the students‟ reading comprehension. The method of the reserach was the experimental research method. The population of the study was the eight grade (VIII) students of SMPN 2 Suro on JalanRimo Subullusalam Aceh Singkil in academic year 2016/2017, which consist of two classes. They were VIII-1 and VIII-2 class. The number of population were 60 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 pair checks method and the control group was taught by using reading method. The instrument of research was multiple choice test. The multiple choice test consistes of 20 items. The finding indicated that tc> tt or 3.232 > 2.000 the finding of the research showed that there was a significant effect of applying pair checks method on the students‟ reading comprehension because tc was higher that tt ( 3,232 > 2.000 ). It meant that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The percentage of the effect of applying pair checks method on the students‟ reading comprehension was 98.01% and 1.99% from other factors.