The Implementation of Make a Match Method Using the Jakarta Post to Improve Students’ Reading Skills

Abstract

The main objectives of the study are 1) to find out students reading mastery before being taught by applying Make a Match using The Jakarta Post in the learning process. 2) to find out students reading mastery after being taught by applying Make a Match using The Jakarta Post in the learning process. 3) to find out the differences between the students reading mastery taught by applying by Make a Match and without applying Make a Match using The Jakarta Post in the learning process. In this case, the researcher adopted Quantitative Research. This study took data sources of 72 students from class X Man 1 students in Semarang. Then the researcher made an instrument by making double choice questions as a pre-test and post-test to assess students' reading progress after being taught Make a match as a method and applied to the text in the form of Jakarta post. The result of pre-test mean of both classes is 66.25 for experiment class and 61.39 for control class. And the result of post-test mean of both classes is 85.97 for experimental and 74.03 for control class. Those result were formulated with t-test formula. The test score showed that t-test > t-table. The t-test is obtained 1.935 for 5 percent (0.05) alpha level of significant. The percentage of t-table 5% is -2,021. The computation shows that 1,935 > -2,021. The conclusion of this study is to improve students’ reading by applying Make a Match using The Jakarta Post is recommended and effective.