The Effect of Synthetic Phonics on the Development of Students’ Reading Aloud Skill

Abstract

This study aims to know the effect of synthetic phonics on the development of students reading aloud skills. This study was conducted at State Junior High School 3 Babelan, Bekasi, Indonesia. This study used a quantitative method, true-research experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test. The population of this research is all 8thgrade students, and for the sample, the writer used two classes of 8th grade as the sample, which first-class is experimental class and second as control class with participant number 72 students. Data obtained from the test and their kind of test namely is test pre-test and post-test, to know that synthetic phonics is effective the writer compared the result of the post-test from the experimental class and control class average. The findings showed that the learning process used synthetic phonics to make students develop their reading aloud skills.  The experimental class (VIII-1) the lowest score is 71 and the highest score is 89 meanwhile control class (VIII-6) the lowest score is 62 and the highest score is 75, the difference of the highest scores between experimental and control class is 14, it means experimental class gained 14 scores. It can be concluded that synthetic phonics is effective in the development of students’ reading aloud skills, this study recommends continuation using synthetic phonics to develop students’ reading aloud skills.