The effectiveness of Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) strategy to teach students’ reading comprehension on narrative text : an experimental study at tenth grade of MAN Gubug Grobogan in academic year of 2015/2016

The background of this research is focused on the students’ reading comprehension on narrative text. This thesis based on phenomena which happen in school, there were students hard to guess and predict the meaning because of the limitation of vocabulary. Students have difficulty in understanding English word, phrase, and sentence in English, and finding the main idea of the text. Teacher uses conventional method and students usually study individually. This thesis discusses The Effectiveness of Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) Strategy to Teach Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text (an experimental study at tenth grade of MAN Gubug Grobogan in the academic year of 2015/2016). The objective of the research is to know the effectiveness of Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) strategy to teach students’ reading comprehension on narrative text. Subjects of this research were 70 students that were divided into two classes, namely experimental class (40) and control class (30). The researcher used bored sampling technique to determine the sample.Experimental design was used as the research design. The instrument used to collect the data was reading comprehension test or multiple choice test because students’ tests paper can be easily and quickly scored. The assessment of the test result was focused students’ reading comprehension on narrative text.Before gave pre-test for experimental and control class, the researcher gave try-out test to try-out class to get a good instrument test. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test for both classes. Before giving post-test, the researcher gave treatment to the experimental class (the students who were taught using Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) strategy and the control class (the students who were taught without using TGT). Then, the researcher gave post-test both of control and experimental classes to know the students’ reading comprehension result. After collecting the data, it was found that the pre-test average score of experimental class was 71,4 and the control class was70,9. Meanwhile, the post-test average score of the experimental class was 80,45 and the control class was 65,067. Based on the t test with the standard of significance of 5%, it was found tcount 6,695and t table 1,67. Because of tcount > t table(6,695> 1,67). It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. Based on the result, the researcher concluded that the use of Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) strategywas effective to teach students’ reading comprehension on narrative text at MANGubug Grobogan in the academic year of 2015/2016