| dc.description.abstract | The objectives of this research are to find out students’readimg ability in procedure text at the Eight grade in Junior High School, and to identify whether Constructivist approach influence on students’ reading ability in procedure text. This research was conducted by using quantitative research. In this research, the population is the Eight grade of junior high school. The number of population were 20 students. Pre-experimental method was applied in this research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The instrument used to collect data was reading test and the components of reading. The result of the research showed that the Eight grade students of junior high school had “poor” score on pre-test with the mean score 42.5. After giving treatment the students got improvement, they got “good” score with the mean score 75. To find out the difference between students’ pre-test and post-test, the researcher applied t-test value was 2,67 which was higher than the t-table value 1.734 at the level significance was 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) N-1 in which N= 20. Based on the result of this research, the researcher suggest that Constructivist approach may be used as alternative technique in teaching reading of procedure text because it can help students to get effectiveness in teaching reading of procedure text. | en_US |
