USING MAKE-A MATCH TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT MTS GUPPI SAMATA GOWA

• Main Authors: Irwanto, Sitti Nurpahmi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan UIN Alauddin Makassar 2017-12-01
• Series: Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal)
• Subjects: students, reading comprehension, and make a match
• Online Access: http://journal.uin-alauddin.ac.id/index.php/Eternal/article/view/4126

The main objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of students ability in Reading comprehension that taught by using Make a Match method. This research was conducted at MTs Guppi Samata Gowa Regency in Academic Year 2016/2017. In this research, the population were students in the first grade. The numbers of population were 50 students. In taking the sample, Class VII A and VII B was chosen by using purposive sampling technique.. Quasi-experimental design was applied in this research with two group pre-test and post-test design. Class VII A was chosen as controlled class by using conventional method (speech method) and Class VII B was chosen as experimental class that taught by using Make a Match method. The instrument used to collect data was reading test, especially multiple choice as a representation of reading and some vocabularies to make a matching in the translation of the words. The result of the data analysis indicated that there was a significant improvement in the students’ reading comprehension after being taught using Make a Match method. It was proved by the result of the statistical analysis of the level significance P = 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = 48 indicated that the t-test values of the students’ reading (5.511) was higher than t-table value (2.021). Based on the result analysis, the researcher concludes that of using Make a Match method was effective to improve reading comprehension at the first grade students’ of MTs Guppi Samata Gowa, because make a match have some advantages such as each students can be directly involved in answering a question given to them in the from a card, secondly, it can increase the students’ activity. Thirdly, it can help avoid students being bored during teaching learning process and make a match method can motivate and encourage students to be more interested and enthusiastic in learning English.