Numbered Head Together To Enhance Students Integrated Reading and Writing Skills (A Classroom Action Research)
Abstract
This paper aims to describe the implementation of Numbered Head Together to teach students’
integrated reading and writing skill. This paper also aims to know how far the Numbered Head
Together can enhance students’ integrated reading and writing skills. This is a result of a classroom
action
research. The research was conducted in vocational high school in Blora. The data
were obtained after implementing the action by comparing the mean score of the test.
The results of action research are: (1) the implementation of Numbered Head Together (NHT)
method in teaching reading is able to help the students comprehending the materials easily. The
researcher as a teacher divided the students into five groups and gave the students number head
one to five. Each student should be responsible for the whole question and understand the mate-
rials. (2) the mean score of pre-test is 52.38, the mean score of the posttest 1 is 62.28 meanwhile
the mean score of posttest 2 is 67.14. It can be stated that the students do the improvement. Besides,
based
on
the
interview
result
with
the
students,
it
stated
that
this
can
raise
their
self-esteem.
Furthermore,
it
also
influenced
to
the
students
writing
skill.
The
students
can
memorize
the
words easily
that makes them able to write down with the correct spelling.