THE USE OF NOTE TAKING TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION: An Experimental Study for the Eighth Grade Students at SMPN 11 Mataram in Academic Year 2012-2013

This study is aimed at finding out the effect of using note-taking technique in improving reading comprehension. The total number of population in this study is 204 students containing six classes. The sample was selected by cluster random sampling, and there were 68 students as the sample of this study, which was divided into two groups: 34 students belonged to experimental and 34 students belonged to control group. The research procedures are pre test-treatment-post test. Pre-test was given for both of experimental and control group in order to know the basic ability of reading comprehension. Then, treatment were given in twice for each group. The experimental group was treated by note taking technique, whereas the control group was treated by conventional method. The data were analyzed statistically by using t-test formula. The result of this study proved that the mean of students’ scores for experimental group (i.e,8.03) was higher than the control group (i.e,3.08). This can be interpreted that there was significant difference of reading comprehension achievement during this study between experimental and control group. It is also supported by the t-test value (i.e,3.46) which was higher than t-table in two tails test at confidence level 0.5 (95%) (i.e,2.00) and 0.1 (99%) (i.e,2.66) (2.00 2.66) in degree of freedom (df) 66. Therefore, note taking technique is effective in improving student’s reading comprehension. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.