the Effectiveness of communicative language TEACHING toward students� reading narrative text (a quasi experimental study at the first grade students of SMAN 7 South Tangerang)

The objective of this study is to see whether the use Communicative Language Teaching is effective toward students� reading narrative text at the first grade students� of SMAN 7 South Tangerang. The sample of this study is 60 students taken from the first grade of SMAN 7 South Tangerang, which are 30 students as experiment class and 30 students as controlled class. The method used in this study was a quantitative method and the design used in this study was a quasi-experimental design. In collecting the data, the writer conducted post-test about reading comprehension narrative test which is consisted of 30 multiple choice items. In analyzing the data, the writer used t-test. The result of this study shows that there is significant difference on students� achievement in reading narrative text that is taught by Communicative Language Teaching. In the table of significance, it can be seen that on the df = 58 and in the degree of significance 5% was 2.00. By comparing the value to is bigger than tt, that is 2.38>2.00, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Therefore, it can be interpreted that there is significance difference on students� comprehension in reading narrative text that is taught by Communicative Language Teaching. The conclusion of this research is teaching reading narrative text through Communicative Language Teaching is more effective toward students� narrative text than teaching reading narrative text without using Communicative Language Teachin