The Effect of Communicative Approach towards Students’ Reading Comprehension on The Eighth Grade of SMP PGRI 3 South Jakarta

Abstract

The research aims at finding out the effect of Communicative Approach’s learning model to the students’ reading ability. The research was conducted at SMP PGRI 3 South Jakarta. The method applied was experimental research. Samples were taken randomly and grouped in two classes of experiment and control consisting of 30 students of each group. The analysis of data for hypothesis test was by using t-test. Prior to the calculation of hypothesis test, it was preceded by the calculation of normality test by applying Lilliefors and homogenity test with F-test. Findings show that for experiment class, L_count = 0.1097 and L_tabel = 0.161, even controll class it is obtained L_count = 0.1214 and L_table = 0.161. if F_count= 1.32 and F_table=1,84. It can be concluded that both research groups are normally distributed and the data is homogenous with α = 0.05. the hypothesis test with t-test statistic formula, it is obtained that t_count is 2.46 and t_table is 1.67. After being compared, t_count value is somewhat higher than t_table value (2.46 > 1.67).