THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PORPE (PREDICT, ORGANIZE, REHEARSE, PRACTICE, AND EVALUATE) METHOD IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY IN THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA AN-NAWAWI SALAMAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/ 2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether PORPE method is effective or not in teaching narrative text to improve reading comprehension ability in the tenth grade students of MA An-Nawawi Salaman in the academic year 2012/2013. The type of this research is experimental research. The number of the sample is 64. 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 means of the students who were taught reading narrative text by using PORPE Method was 74,53 the means of the students who were taught reading narrative text without PORPE Method is 68,875. It could be seen from the final result of t-test analysis which stated that the t-value was higher than the t-table (4,72> 1,99). There was a difference in the students’ achievement in texts between students taught using PORPE Method and those without using PORPE Method. Having analyzed the data, the writer found that the students’ achievement of experiment class was better than that of the control class.

Keywords : Effectiveness, PORPE method, Teaching, Narrative Text, Reading comprehension ability.