THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO STAY TWO STRAY TEACHING METHOD TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP N 2 ROWOKELE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The aim of the thesis is to know whether two stay two stray method can improve students reading comprehension for the students of class eight at SMP N 2 Rowokele in the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher applies quantitative method. This study can be categorized as experimental research. The number of the sample is 68. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test. And to analysis the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of the research finds that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 72.11 and the mean score of post-test is 81.47. Then the value of t-test is 70.18 and the t-table is 2.000. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 7.018 > 2.000 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “two stay two stray method to improve reading comprehension is effective” is accepted.

Keyword: effectiveness, two stay two stray, teaching method, reading comprehensions.