THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION ON SECOND GRADE OF SMP WAHYU MAKASSAR

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know the effect of Comunicative Approach towards students' reading comprehension on second grade of SMP Wahyu Makassar. The results of this study are expected to be useful for students to enrich the reading comprehension skill, and can help teachers to be more interactive and creative. The research method applied is pre-experimental method using a pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The subject of this research is VIII-A class at SMP Wahyu Makassar academic year 2015/2016. This research applied total sampling technique, with a total sample of 30 students. The result of data analysis shown that there was a significant effect of students‟ reading comprehension by using Communicative Approach as a method in the learning process. It can be seen from the value of the ttest is 13.29 higher than t-table is 1.669. Obtaining the student scores indicate that usage Communicative approach can give effect towards students' reading comprehension in class VIII-A SMP Wahyu Makassar.