A study on improving students’ reading comprehension using the Numbered Heads Together Technique

Rosnani Sahardin,Mukarramah Mukarramah,Anwar Hanafiah

doi:10.24815/siele.v2i2.2696

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https://doi.org/10.24815/siele.v2i2.2696

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This study deals with improving the reading comprehension of junior high school students through the Numbered Heads Together (NHT) technique. The objective is to find out if cooperative learning using NHT can improve the reading comprehension of the students. The data for this research was obtained from a field study using an experimental research design at a middle school in Aceh Besar with a one group time series design. From the study, it was found that the students’ mean scores from the pre-test and the post-test were different. The mean score of the students’ post-test was higher than the pre-test scores. To find out if the two mean scores were significantly different, they were tested using the t-test statistical procedure. The result showed that they were significantly different (df = 8, alpha 0.05, t-table 17.550 2.0452). This indicated that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected as hypothesized. Thus, cooperative learning using the NHT technique can improve the reading comprehension skills of middle school students.

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Reading comprehension is essential to develop the vocabulary of students and to assist students to master Second Language (SL) skills
The authors found that the reading mean score of the students at this school was only 49 out of 100 whilst the KKM (Kriteria Kelulusan Minimal or Passing Grade) was 70. These results showed that from 30 students, only 7 of them could pass
This study was done to only answer the following research question: To what extent can the Numbered Heads Together NHT technique improve the ESL reading comprehension of middle school students? the main purpose of this study is to investigate whether using the NHT cooperative learning technique at a middle school in Banda Aceh could improve the competence of the students in reading comprehension in English

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Reading comprehension is essential to develop the vocabulary of students and to assist students to master Second Language (SL) skills. It is an activity to understand the meaning in a text. As one of the four basic language skills, reading contributes to the success of language learning together with the other skills. A Study on Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using The Numbered Heads Together Technique | 133 find information from an array of texts, ranging from textbooks, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, brochures, internet, DVDs, TV to hand phones

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