The Effect of Using Numbered Heads Together and Reading Motivation on Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive and Narrative Text of SMPN 7 Muaro Jambi.

In teaching reading, teaching technique and reading motivation influences students’ reading comprehension. Technique which was used in this experimental research is Numbered Heads Together. It can be used as a variation of teaching technique in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text. The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of using Numbered Heads Together and students’ reading motivation on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text. This research was an experimental research with factorial design two by two. It was conducted at SMPN 7 Muaro Jambi. Population of this research was second year students with the total population was 164. The sample was taken by cluster sampling; the total number of sample was 41 (20 students in the II F and 21 students in the II G). II F was control class and II G was experiment class. The results of this research are, first, the students who were taught by Numbered Heads Together had better result on reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text than the students who were taught by Question Answer Relationship. Second, the students with higher reading motivation who were taught by Numbered Heads Together had better reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text than those who are taught by Question Answer Relationship. Third, students with lower reading motivation who are taught by Numbered Heads Together had better reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text than those who are taught by Question Answer Relationship. Fourth, there was no interaction between both techniques and students’ reading motivation on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text. In conclusion, Numbered Heads Together can be used as a teaching technique in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive and narrative text at SMPN 7 Muaro Jambi. For further researcher, they are suggested to do more research dealing with this technique on other skills and others kinds of text.