ABSTRACT

Damanik, Nuraini Ramadhani Said. NPM:1402050251. "The Effect of Using Literacy

Integrated Method on the Students' Reading Achievement In Narrative". Skripsi. English
Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah
Sumatera Utara. Medan. 2018

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of using literacy integrated method
on the students' reading achievement in narrative text. It was an experimental research.
Population of this research was the second year students of Junior High School in SMP
NEGERI 13 Binjai Jl. Letjend Jamin Ginting in the academic year 2017/2018 with the total
population was 144 students. Two classes were taken by total sampling which divided into two
groups, the first group VIII-1 which consisted of 36 students was experimental group which
was given treatment by literacy integrated method and second group VIII-2 which consisted of
36 students was control group which was given treatment by using grammar translation
method. The instrument of collecting data was multiple choice which consisted of 20 items.
Each group was given a pre-test and post-test. After the data had been collected, these were
analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of analysis showed that t-The t-test was 21.70 and
the t-table was 1.66 which was used 0.05 as the significant level of this research. Because the
t-test value was higher than t-table (21.70> 1.66), it showed that the result in t-test was accepted
(Ha). Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that there was significant effect of
using literacy integrated method on the students' reading achievement in narrative text. After
analyzing the data, the result that the students' who were taught by literacy integrated method
got better achievement that those taught by using grammar translate method because using
literacy integrated method (21.70) higher than by using grammar translation method (5.77)

Keywords: literacy integrated method, reading, narrative text