THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING AESTHETIC REALISM METHOD IN TEACHING READING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 6 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to know the ability of reading comprehension on descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMAN 6 Purworejo in Academic year 2014/2015 and to find out whether aesthetic realism method was effective or not in teaching descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMAN 6 Purworejo in Academic year 2014/2015. This study belong to experimental research. In this research the researcher take 60 students as the sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used class X-4 which consists of 32 students. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher take 32 students of class X-5. The researcher teach reading by using aesthetic realism method to experimental group and common method to the control group. The researcher then statistically analyze the data by using t-test polled variance. After analyzing the data, the researcher find that the mean score of the experimental group is 81.85. It can be categorize as excellent category and the mean score of the control group is 75.91. It can be categorize as good category. As the fact, the result of t-table is 2.06 based on the 0.05 significant level, the value of t-test is 5.68. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 5.68>2.06. So, it can be stated that the hypothesis was accepted.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Aesthetic Realism, Reading, Descriptive text.