The Effectiveness of Inside-Outside Circle to Teach Reading Viewed from Students’ Self-Esteem (An Experimental Study at the Twelfth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Tuban in the Academic Year of 2011/2012)

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Gatot Mintarsono - S891008033 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

This research is aimed at finding out whether: (1) inside-outside circle is more effective than lecture method to teach reading, (2) students who have high self-esteem have better reading skill than those who have low self-esteem, and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ self-esteem in teach reading. The research was conducted at SMA Negeri 2 Tuban in the academic year of 2011/2012. The population was the twelfth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Tuban in the academic year of 2011/2012 which consists of seven classes. The research method used was an experimental study. The sample was taken by using cluster random sampling. There were two classes used as samples, namely XII IPA-B as the experimental class taught by using inside-outside circle and XII IPA-A as the control class taught by using lecture method. The data of the research were collected using two valid and reliable instruments, namely a questionnaire and a reading test. The questionnaire is used to classify students into two groups: the students who have high self-esteem and those who have low self-esteem. The reading test is used to know the students’ reading skill. After the normality and homogeneity tests were conducted, the hypothesis test was done. The data of reading test were analyzed by using multifactor analysis of variance 2 x 2 and Tukey test. Based on the data analysis, there are some research findings that can be drawn. First, inside-outside circle is more effective than lecture method to teach reading. Second, the students who have high self-esteem have better reading skill than those who have low self-esteem. Third, there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ self-esteem in teaching reading. The effectiveness of the teaching method is influenced by the degree of students’ self-esteem. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that inside-outside circle is an effective method to teach reading to the twelfth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Tuban in the academic year of 2011/2012. Therefore, the use of inside-outside circle is recommended in teaching reading. In order to achieve a good result, the basic elements and the procedure of inside-outside circle must be applied properly in the teaching-learning process. Since there is an interaction between teaching methods (inside-outside circle and lecture method) and students’ self-esteem in teaching reading, both methods can be used to complement each other in teaching reading in order that the students having high self-esteem and the ones having low self-esteem are able to obtain an optimum achievement in learning reading.