THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TO INCREASE THE STUDENTS’ READING ALOUD ABILITY FOR THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 1 KLIRONG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

This research is quantitative research with experiment. The objective of this study is to find out whether teaching reading using phonetic transcription is effective to increase the students’ reading aloud ability for the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Klirong. The researcher took 60 students as a sample. For the experimental group, the researcher used class VIII.3 which consists of 31 students and for the control group, the researcher used class VIII.1 which consists of 32 students. The researcher uses purposive sampling because of some considerations. The spoken test is used to know the students’ reading aloud ability by using phonetic transcription. To collect the data, the researcher uses test as a instrument. The researcher uses pre-test and post-test to get the data. This research is quantitative research, so it needs a data analysis. The result of this research shows that teaching reading using phonetic transcription as media can increase the students’ reading aloud ability. Based on the result of post-test on two groups, the mean score of experimental group is 76.16 and the mean score of control group is 68.86. The result of the computation of t-value (t-test) is 6.345. The computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, it is 6.345 > 2.000, so the hypothesis is accepted.

(Keywords: effectiveness, phonetic transcription, reading aloud ability)