Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : nuraini student no : 1206102020112 study program : english language education thesis title : the implementation of reading aloud technique in improving students’ reading comprehension (an experimental at eight grade students of smp negeri 5 banda aceh) keyword: reading comprehension, reading aloud technique, improvement the objective of this study is to know whether there is a significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension after the teacher implemented reading aloud technique. this research applied quantitative design. the population was all the students of eight grades of smp negeri 5 banda aceh. the sample was the students of class eight-1. the researcher used one group pre-test and post-test design. the researcher administered pre-test, treatment and post-test to collect the data. the mean score of pre-test was 52 and post-test was 90.8. the finding showed that the improvement of the mean was 38.8. the critical value of t-table 0.05 significant levels was 1.71. the obtained of t-test value is higher than the critical value of t-table (4.21 > 1.71). in short, the alternative hypothesis (ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (ho) is rejected. as a result, there is a significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension by implementing reading aloud at eight grade students of smp negeri 5 banda aceh.