The Effectiveness of Suggestopedia on Students? Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text: A Quasi-Experimental Study at the Third Grade Students of MTsN II Pamulang

The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether using Suggestopedia was effective for students on reading comprehension of narrative text at MTsN II Pamulang. The study was conducted at MTsN II Pamulang in September-October 2014. The population of this study all MTsN II Pamulang students of the third grade were about 328 students, each class consisted of less 40 students and the samples of this study were thirty students at MTsN II Pamulang. The writer used two methods on students? reading comprehension in narrative text. She used Suggestopedia in class 9.1 as the experimental class and class 9.4 as traditional method in controlled class. The method used in this study was quasi-experimental study using nonequivalent control group design. The data were taken by giving pre-test and post-test reading both of classes. The result of the calculation statistical hypothesis test that showed tvalue was higher than ttable (2.07>1.68) where the formula of significance level α=0.05. Besides, the effect size was to know the strength of suggestopedia as a treatment on students? reading comprehension in narrative text by The Effect Size (Cohen?s d) Calculator for a Student t-Test was 0.59 which means there was medium effect using suggestopedia based on the criteria of table effect size range. Therefore, it was concluded that there was a significance effect of using Suggestopedia on students? reading comprehension in narrative text at the Third Grade Students of MTsN II Pamulang