lutfiana, Nurulita (2023) The Influence of Using Showdown Technique Toward The Students’ Reading Comprehension Of The Eleventh Grade of Sma Negeri 1 Punggur Central Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

This study aims to determine whether the Showdown Technique can influence the reading comprehension of class XI students at SMA Negeri 1 Punggur Lampung Tengah. Reading is a skill that must be mastered by students to gain a better reading comprehension. Therefore, students who have mastered reading skills will easily get information and knowledge. However, many students think that reading is not easy. With this students become lazy and bored. A teacher must choose techniques that can interest students and encourage their involvement. The Showdown technique is a cooperative learning technique whose main purpose is to ask students to work in groups. This technique is able to overcome students' difficulties in developing ideas and solving students' motivation problems in reading.

This research was quantitative design. The population of this research was the eleventh grader students. The sample were 48 students established through the cluster random sampling technique. The researcher used test and documentation as the data collecting method. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used Independent sample t-test by using SPSS.

In this research, the result of normality test was: post-test experimental class Sig. = 0,417, post-test control class Sig. = 0.914. Then the result of homogeneity test was Sig. = 0.011. It means that the data was normal and homogeneous. The result of t-test that has been calculated using Independent sample t-test formula which is significant level (2-tailed) was 0.000 which is less than the alpha 0.05. Based on these description above Ho is rejected, it means that there was a positive and significant influence of using Showdown Technique toward the students’ reading comprehension of the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Punggur Central Lampung.

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