The Effectiveness of Snowball Throwing Technique in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text For Seventh Grade Students of SMP Mantiyah Bekasi in The First Semester in 2015/2016 Academic Year

dr. tri wintolo apoko, m.pd.; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.;

YUNITA ANGGRAINI. Nim: 0801065225. The Effectiveness of Snowball Throwing Technique in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text For Seventh Grade Students of SMP Mantiyah Bekasi in The First Semester in 2015/2016 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The English Study Programme the School of Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2017.
The objective of the reaserch is to fine out the effectiveness by using Snowball Throwing Technique in teaching reading comprehension of Descriptive text at the seventh grade students of SMP Mantiyah Bekasi in first semester in 2015/2016 academic year. the sample of this study was taken from the seventh grade students of VII-1 and VII-2 classes around 25 students for both. The design of study is closhly related to quasi-experimental research . this study conducted pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The technique of data collection was test. In the pre-test, the writer gave the tests for both classes with the same instrument. In the treatment, the writer taught the students for the control class without snowball throwing technique for the experimental class. After giving the treatment, the writer gave the post-test for both classes with the same instrument.
Based on the result of the experiment by using Snowball Throwing Technique in teaching reading comprehension, it showed that average pre-test of the experimental class around 70.8 and the control class around 70.2. while the average post-test of the experimental class around 80.8 and the control class around 72.58. Additionally, the t-observed was around 5.311587 whereas the t-table was around 2.0126. from the degree of freedom(64) in the significant level of 0.05. Due to the fact that 𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑>𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 , Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that Snowball Throwing Technique is effective in teaching reading comprehension of Descriptive text at the seventh grade students of SMP Mantiyah Bekasi in first semester in 2015/2016 academic year. thus, the Snowball Throwing Technique usage can be effective and alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension.