A.

Research Tittle Using Start Simple Stories (SSS) Technique to Make English Reading Learning Effective at The Eight Grade of Junior High School Number 2 Bintan Timur. B. Background of the Problem English is considered as a foreign language in Indonesia in which it requires four certain major language skills should be targeted by a language learner. Those are listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Listening and reading skills are regarded as receptive skills while speaking and writing skills are considered to be productive skills. As one of the language skills, reading also plays an important role because reading has become a part of our daily life. Through reading various printed materials such as newspaper, magazine, fiction, and nonfiction books, we are able to gain a lot of knowledge, information, pleasure and problem solution. Hence, the ability to read the texts in any forms will contribute a great deal advantage in our life such as gaining success at school. Robert Karim (1980) defines that reading is as a process instructing the ideas of the authors. Reading is one of the basic communicative skill, but it has very complex process. Most students still have reading problems such as difficulty to understand the texts, low

mastery of vocabulary, low speed of reading, and low habit of reading. These problems could result from many factors. They could derive from the teaching strategy, the students' intellectual competence themselves, or the students' socio and economic condition which force them to be lack of school facilities and eventually causes low interest of studying and low

scores of English.

Concerning this problem, In teaching material about reading must use some techniques in order to that students can be easier in learning reading, one of techniques in teaching reading through SSS (Start with Simple Stories). This is a kind of reading technique in which the learners are introduced with the reading activity using a variety of short illustrated stories. Sakai Kunihide stated that SSS (Start with Simple Stories) have three Rules: 1) No dictionaries while reading 2) Skip over difficult words 3) Stop reading when it is boring or too difficult. In SSS (Start with Simple Stories) technique learners can start with picture books with a few words on a page. Many learners who start with simple stories can read a large number of books without difficulty. Based on these syptomps, the author interested in studying this problem with the title interested in studying these problems by title Using Start Simple Stories (SSS) Technique To Make The English Reading Learning Effective At The Eight Grade Of Junior High School Number 2 Bintan. C. Formulation Of the Problem Based on the topic of limitations, the authors assume the problem statement of the identification of the problem is as follows: How is the influence of using Start Simple Stories (SSS) technique to make the English reading learning effective at the eight grade of junior high school number 2 bintan timur ?

D. Research Method 1. Location of the Research This reasearch will conduct at the junior high school number 2 Bintan on Kp. Baru keke street, Kijang. 2. Subject and Object of the Research The subject or the source data of this research is the eight grade of junior high school number 2 Bintan. Object of the research is using Start Simple Stories (SSS) technique to make the english reading learning effective. 3. Population and Sample of the Research a. Population of the Research Population of the research is the number or body of inhabitants of particular race or class in place that used to research. According to Arikunto (2002:108) from encyclopedia of educational evaluation, population is is a set (or collection) of all element possessing one or more attributes of interest. So population of research are all students the eleventh year students of accounting major at the vocational high school number 2 Bintan. The total number of the population is 110 person b. Sample of the Research According to Sugiyono (2010:62), sample is part of amount and proprietary characteristic by that population. Because of population in this study is more than a hundred; it is suggested take 10%-15%, or 20%-25% (Arikunto, 1986:107). This number is representative enough for the research. In this experimental research, the researcher will take 20% of the population of the study; it means that from 110

students the researcher takes 22 students as a sample of the study. They consist of 22 students in class XI AK 2. 4. Data Collecting Techniques To obtain the desired data, the reasearch use the technique of written test. Written test is A written test or piece of work is one which involves writing rather than doing something practical or giving spoken answers. Written test difine 2 type, there are pretest and post-test. Pre-test is a test given to determine if students are sufficiently prepared to begin a new course of study. And post-test is a test given to students after completion of an instructional program or segment and often used in conjunction with a pre-test to measure their achievement and the effectiveness of the program Obsevation. 5. Data Analyzing Techniques To analyze the collected data, the writer used the quantitative method. The quantitative method is used to anlyze the statistic data. In order to get students individual score, the writer used the formula: t=

questionnaires and

Where: Md Xd N : Mean from different pre-test with post test : Deviation of subject : Total quadrant deviation : Subject of sample

( Arikunto, 2002: 275) Henning (1987: 74) states that reliability is a measure of accurancy, consistency, dependability, or fairness of scores resulting from administration of a particular examination. The reliability of the test can be calculated by following formula:

r II=
Where:

r II = The coefficient of reliability test

k = the standar deviation of all test M = the mean score on the test for all the testes =total of varians (Arikunto, 2002:164)

Akio, Furukawa. "SSS Extensive Reading Method Proves to Be an Effective Way to Learn English." N.p., 2006. Web. 2 Dec. 2009. <http://www. seg.co.jp/sss/information/SSSER2006.htm>.

Furukawa, A. (2006) SSS Extensive Reading Method Proves Effective Way to Learn English . SEG (Scientific Education Group), available online at: http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/information/SSSER-2006.htm

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