The effectiveness of limited cloze test for students’ reading ability in narrative text : a quasi experimental study at eleventh grade of MA At-Tawaazun Pemalang in the academic year of 2015/2016

In some Madrasah Aliyah, reading is still not easy. In fact, students of eleventh grades MA At-TawaazunPemalang have the problem to understand their English learning especially in reading. They are still lack of vocabulary. To solve this problem, writer choose cloze procedural test as the assessment that will help them in their reading. Because as Jongsma said in his research that cloze test is completion-type exercises had been used previously measure intelligence and teacher constructed tests. Deletions in these tests were usually highly selective and focused on high content words that conveyed meaning. In learning English, as well as other areas of assessment need not waituntil the middle or the end of the semester but can be done during the learning process take place using a variety of evaluation tools. Both testing and teaching are so closely interrelated that is virtually impossible to work in other field without being constantly concerned with the other. So the writer held quasi experimental research for this case to help the student compare the pre-test and post-test result using limited cloze test as the treatment. There are some significant differences between pre-test and post-test score. The average score in reading skill for the experimental class was 24.76 for the pre-test and 63.81 for the post-test. Also for the result of calculation by using t-test showed that ttable = 2.086, from the result of calculation paired t-test tcount = 6.87, tcount>ttable. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in the students’ score in narrative text with eleventh grade students of MA At-Tawaazun Pemalang in academic year of 2015/2016 between before and after treatment by using limited cloze test