THE USE OF TEAM GAME TOURNAMENT (TGT) IN TEACHING ENGLISH READING OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ OF MTS MIFTAHUL MAARIF PLAMBIK IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

This research investigated the use of Team Game Tournament (TGT) in teaching reading of narrative text. It is conducted because TGT is considered as a technique of cooperative learning which could solve the problem the student’s low achievement in reading narrative text. The use of TGT gives students opportunity to work in group with other students and help each other in learning process in order to master the subject material. The objective of this research was to know that the use of Team Game Tournament has effect or not in teaching reading narrative as the first purpose in this study, and the second one is to analyze the significant differences between the students are taught using Team Game Tournament and without using Team Game Tournament in teaching English reading of narrative text at the eighth grade students of MTs Miftahul Maarif in academic year 2019/2020. Total number of the population of this research was 46 students and automatically became the sample of this research by using purposive sampling procedure. The sample divided into two groups, i.e. experimental and control group, both groups were given test namely pre and post-test. The experimental group was treated by using TGT while the control group didn’t. The result of statistic calculation, it is obtained that the value of t-observation (tₒ) was 6,99 and degree of freedom (df) was 44. In the table of significance 0,05 value of degree of significance is 1.68 and 0,01 the value of degree of significance is 2,41. Comparing those values, the result was 6, 99> 1,68 and 6,99 >2,41 which means t-observation (tₒ) score is higher that t-table ( ) score. In other words, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Team Game Tournament has significant effect in teaching English reading of narrative text at the eighth grade students of MTs Miftahul Maarif Plambik inacademic year 2019/2020. Keywords: Team Game Tournament, Reading Narrative Text