The Effect of NHT On Students Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text in SMAS Bhayangkari Rantau Prapat Academic Year 2019/2020

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of NHT on students reading comprehension of narrative text. This type of research is quantitative research. Which researchers will conduct their research by going directly to the SMAS Bhayangkari Rantau Prapat. Quantitative analysis of numerical data (nurimia) that is processed by statistical methods. The research design used is pretest–posttest control group design. The population of this research will Grade XI students of the High School (Senior High School: SMA) SMAS Bhayangkari Rantau Prapat. the researchers used the cluster technique. Researcher chooses one class as an Experimental Class and one as the control class. In experimental class were 39 students and control class were 38 students. The totals of sample were 77 students. The instrument in this research was test. The test was conducted in pre-test and post-test (competence test). For pre-test, the researcher gave the students a paper contain narrative text with mouse deer and chrocodile (kancil dan buaya)The text consists of a texts with the total number 10 questions. The procedures in administrating the test will divided into pre-test, treatment, post-test, and scoring the test. To find out the difference means of scores of the test between the experimental and control group, the researcher used t-test formula. Based on the calculation, the tcount is 4,033 > ttable is 1,66543. So it can be concluded that there is a positive effect of NHT on Students Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text in SMAS BHAYANGKARI Rantau Prapat Academic year 2019/2020.