THE EFFECT OF USING HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of using Herringbone Technique on the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. This study was an experimental research design. The population of this study was grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 14 Medan with the total number of students was 60 as samples and all of the students was taken by using lottery technique. The students were divided into two groups, namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Herringbone Technique, while the control group was taught by using Direct Instruction. The instrument of collecting data was multiple choice tests which then divided into pre-test and post-test. To obtain the result of the reliability of the test, the researcher used the Kuder Richardson formula (KR-21). The result of the calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.80, which means that the reliability of the test is high. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that tvalue is higher than ttable (3.27 > 2.00) at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. It means that there is a significant effect of using Herringbone Technique on the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. .