THE EFFECTS OF TEACHING TECHNIQUES TOWARDS STUDENT’S READING SKILL AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN SOUTH JAKARTA

The purpose of this study was to: determine the interactional effects of teaching technique towards student’s reading skill that was taught by role plays and filling information gap (both are communicative language teaching) to the students. The research method used was experimental one. Sample size of 60 students consisting of 30 for experimental class and 30 for control class taken from Vocational High School in South Jakarta, and the sampling technique used is cluster sampling. Research instruments used were the test to distinguish the effect of teaching techniques towards student’s reading skill in the form of oral test (5 items for scoring), that have been tested valid and reliable with coefficient of reliability at 0.839 and 0.705. The research uses two-ways ANOVA test. The result showed there is a significant effect of teaching technique towards student’s reading skill, as Fobserved = 95.553 > Ftable = 2.77 and Sig = 0.000 < 0.05. The results contribute most to the increasing of student’s reading skill.


1) Role Play Technique
According to Larsen and Freeman (2000:134)  Halimah (2000) states that, Achievement is the condition of how far is the progress made by student toward the educational objective set for them, in order word, it is an indication of success or failure.

2) Information Gap Technique
Information Gap.

Role Play Information Gap
It requires active participation of the learners.
Students usually consider this type of learning fun.
T The activity can be applied in multiple settings.
It allows students to gain insight or understand the perspective of others.
Students can experience the target language in context to learn how to interpret and exchange meanings for real communication.
Students use language freely only the setting and the students" roles are determined by the teacher, and students create It requires extensive practice in asking and answering questions.
Students sometimes consider this activity is not so interesting.
The activity is applied in limited setting.
Students are suited to pair and usually rely upon pre prepared information cards.
One student has to listen to her partner and then decide on how to respond in her own words in the given situations.
Teacher provides students with appropriate forms to be used and meanings in dialogues.
Teacher can only provide students with limited learning experience. interaction.
Teacher can provide students with a variety of learning

Reading Skill
Success in reading depends upon a child"s knowledge about early literacy and reading before they are able to pick up a book and read. Children learn many important things about reading before they come to school through experiences with literature. In this activity, students are supposed to be working in pairs. One student will have the information that the other partners will share their information. Each partner plays an important role because the task cannot be completed if the partners do not provide the information the others need.
Based on the definitions above, reading is a process to get know the words and understand the meaning of printed symbols on a text. Anderson (1998)

Research Methodology
This research used experimental method with 2x2 factorial designs, which stated as follow: Research Design

Target Population
The target population of this research is all varsity students of Vocational High School in South Jakarta, possesses more than 256 students which is divided into several parallel classes, where each class consists of more or less 30 students.

Source of Data
In this research, all data is gained from students. For further information, we can see the table below:

Variables of Research Source of Data
Teaching technique (role plays and filling information gap)

Method of Collecting Data
The data for this research is collected through:

Technique of Collecting Data
Teaching technique Treatment on the field Reading Skill Reading text

IV. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
According to the result of data analysis which has been done, the resume of data gained through the research is presented as follows: Scoring the data for reading skill is done by using instrument with oral reading text (reading skill test) and the total items to be assessed are 5. For each item will be graded according to the student"s skill from 1 to 5. Hence the maximum score will be 25, while minimum score will be 5. indicates that the reading skill given by students whether using role plays or filling information gap is relatively the same.

V. CONCLUSIONS
Refer to the result taken from the testing of research hypotheses and analysis