Winni Titis Rahmawati , 2201415067 (2019) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH “LOOK-SAY METHOD” A Quasi-Experimental Study at the Seventh Grade of SMP N 28 Semarang in the Academic 2018/2019. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This reseach aimed to describe the classroom condition before being taught by Look-Say method, to find out the students‟ reading skill after being taught by using Look-Say metod, and to identify whether there is significant difference of the reading skill of the students before and after being taught by using Look-Say method. To gain the objectives, the writer did a quasi experimental research. The subjects of this reseach were the students in class VII A and VII D of SMP N 28 Semarang. VII A was the experimental group and VII D was the control group. In this research, the writer gave the students pre-test, treatments, and post-test. Based on the result of the analysis, it is shown that the the experimental group got better score than the control group. in the pre-test, the mean score of the experimental group was 66.00 and the control group was 65.63. In the post-test, the mean score of experimental group was 78.55 and the control group was 71.63. The result of t-test was 2.975 and t-table was. It means that the t-value was higher than t-table 1.670 (2.975 > 1.670). In conclusion, look-say method was effective to improve students‟ reading comprehension of descriptive text. Moreover, the writer hopes that the other English teachers would use look-say method as one of method in teaching reading.

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