Rosidi Lubis (2011) THE USE OF NUMBERED HEAD TOGETHER STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NURUL FALAH PEKANBARU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Students’ difficulties to catch the main points of the reading text have been a problem for the second year students of Junior High school Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. Some of the students’ problems are feeling difficult to catch the main point of the reading text, understanding kinds of word, (Verb, Adj, and noun), concluding the reading text correctly, and comprehending reading text based on their prior knowledge when reading the material. The suitable learning strategy and teachers’ effort will be able to determine students’ ability, especially reading comprehension. In solving the students’ problem in reading comprehension, the researcher orders a collaborative learning strategy type Numbered head together with making a research on the title the use of use numbered head together strategy to improve the reading comprehension of the second year students of Junior High School Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. This research was a kind of quasi experimental research type Non equivalent control group design. The population of this research is all of the second year students of Junior High School Nurul Falah Pekanbaru containing 91 students, and consisting of three classes. The sample of the research consisted of two classes; VIII B and VIII C. Class VIII B as an experimental group taught by Numbered head together strategy and class VIII C as a control group taught by a conventional strategy. The technique of collecting data was t-test; pre-test and post-test. In analyzing the data, researcher analyzed it manually by using statistical formula below: t o = 1 2 M1 M 2 SEM M  Based on the writer’s findings, the students who were taught by Numbered head together strategy got better than students who were taught by conventional strategy. It can be seen from the mean score gotten by both groups. Experimental group achieved 72.16 and the mean score of control group was 63.16. The result of the t-test is 8.64. The writer found that 2.00 < 8.64 > 2.65. It indicated that t observed was higher than t-table in significant 5% and 1%. It means that there is a sicnificant difference of using Numbered Head Together and conventional strategy to improve reading comprehension of second year students of Junior High School Nurul Falah Pekanbaru.

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