The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning NHT at SMP 20 Tangerang

The teacher found some constraints in students of understanding English text such as limited vocabulary; the students have lack of stock words, the students who have little knowledge of vocabulary will face some difficulties to understand the written language. When the students have lack of knowledge about the topic, that makes it difficult to conclude the idea of the text, it is hard to understand what the text tells about. This research used experiment design. The writer teaches two different classes at SMP Negeri 20 Tangerang. In collecting data the writer will give reading comprehension test to the students using multiple choice, and questioner in teaching learning using NHT in reading comprehension. The test is given to get the objective data of the student`s achievement in reading comprehension by using cooperative learning type NHT in Experimental class. This suggests that the use of cooperative learning type NHT is more effective than conventional learning. Based on the those results, it can be concluded that the application of cooperative learning type NHT technique is effective in teaching reading comprehension.