A Comparative Study Between Learning Cell and Direct Instructional Method to Teach Reading
<p><em>This research aim</em><em>s</em><em> to find out whether there is a significant difference in the achievement of reading skill between the students taught using learning cell and those taught using direct instructional method and whether learning cell is more effective than direct instructional method to teach reading.</em><em> </em><em>Related to the objectives of the research, the </em><em>method</em><em> used</em><em> was experimental method</em><em>. The research was conducted in August-</em><em>October</em><em> 2014. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP N 14 Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015</em><em> and t</em><em>he sample were class VIII A as the experimental group and VIII B as the control group. The data were collected by conducting a test and </em><em>analyzed by using t-test formula.</em><em> </em><em>The</em><em> </em><em>computa</em><em>t</em><em>ion of the data shows </em><em>that</em><em> t</em><em>here is a significant difference in reading skill between the students taught using learning cell and those taught using direct instructional method</em><em> and that</em><em> learning cell is more effective than direct instructional method to teach readin</em><em>g</em>.<em></em></p>