THE INFLUENCE OF SNOWBALL DRILLING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS TUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 1 PENENGAHAN SOUTH LAMPUNG IN 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR

Based on the phenomenon that was founded in preliminary research, most of the eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Penengahan South Lampung still had problems in reading. There many students have difficulty to get information required reading the text. Moreover, it was interested to find out the problem and solution by using Snowball Drilling Technique in reading comprehension. This research used quasi experimental method as a methodology of the research with the treatment held in 3 meetings and took two classes as the sample of the research, one class as the experimental class in 8B consisting of 40 students and one class as the control class in 8D consisting of 40 students. The population of the research was the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Penengahan South Lampung. Then, this research used instrument of the research in the form of multiple choice question to collect the data which had been tried out. After conducting the treatments, the instruments were used for the pre-test and post-test. In the data analysis, the result showed that there is a significant influence of using Snowball Drilling Technique towards students’ reading comprehension at the second semester of the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Penengahan South Lampung. From the data analysis, it was obtained that Tobserved = 3.81. It’s means Ha is accepted because Sig. (Tobserved) < . Therefore, there is a significant influence of Snowball Drilling Technique towards students’ reading comprehension at the second semester of the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Penengahan South Lampung