USING INFORMATION-TRANSFER ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING READING

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to describe whether Information-Transfer Activities is
effective or not in teaching readingat the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 3 Purworejo in
theAcademic year of 2016/2017.The type of the research is experimental quantitative
research. The sample is 62 students from X IIS and MIA of SMA Negeri 3 Purworejo in
the academic year of 2016/2017. The independent variable of the research is using
information-transfer activities and the dependent variable of the research is the students’
ability in reading comprehension. The techniques of analyzing the data are descriptive
statistics, and inferential analysis.The results of the computation showed that the
hypothesis“Using information-transfer activities in teaching reading comprehension text
at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 3 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 is
effective” is accepted. It is proved from the result t-value of the computation of t-test is
5.744 and t-table is 2.000, (5.744>2.000), and the result of SPSS computation showed
that Sig (2- tailed) is lower than level of significance 5% (.000<0.05).
Keywords: Information-Transfer Activities, Teaching Reading Comprehension