The Reading Comprehension of Exposition Text of The Eleventh Grade Students of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus In Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught By Using Numbered Heads Together Technique

Reading comprehension is a process of getting meaning from written text which readers understand the content of the text. Students can know information of the text by the reading comprehensively. However, many students get difficulties in reading material. For example exposition text. Because of that, teacher should use technique of teaching that can develop the reading comprehension of the students. Numbered Heads Together technique is one of effective technique can be used in teaching reading to comprehend what the students read and to remember in detail what they have read. The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference between the reading comprehension of exposition text of the eleventh grade students of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Numbered Heads Together technique. The sample of this research is the eleventh grade students of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 consist of 38 students from the population students 111. In choosing the sample of the research, the writer used cluster random sampling. The design of this research was experimental research and used one experimental group. The result of this research showed that the reading comprehension of exposition text of the eleventh grade students of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 before being taught by using Numbered Heads Together technique is categorized sufficient. The score of mean and standard deviation are 66.42 and 10.15. Meanwhile, the reading comprehension of exposition text of the eleventh grade students of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 after being taught by using Numbered Heads Together technique is categorized excellent. The score of mean and standard deviation are 80.65 and 8.4. So, the calculation of t-observation (to) get results 14.16 in the level significant 0.05 and degree of freedom (df) 37 which is gained from N-1= 38-1=37, the t (critical) is 2.03. It means that there is a significant difference of the reading comprehension of exposition text of the eleventh grade students of analytical exposition text of MA NU Matholi’ul Huda Gebog Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Numbered Heads Together technique. Based on the result above, Numbered Heads Together technique work well to develop student’s reading comprehension. Therefore, the English teacher can apply Numbered Heads Together technique as an effective technique in teaching reading process