The Use of Task- Based Language Teaching to Improve Students’ reading comprehension

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of task- based language teaching improve the students’ reading comprehension. To obtain the answer of the research, the researcher applied a quantitative pre- experimental research design. The sample was selected using a purposive sampling technique and the population was the students in senior high school level of MAN 2 Pidie, and the sample of the study was class X- 1 and the total of participants was 23 students. To collect the data the researcher conducted tests (pre- test and post- test), and distributed the questionnaire to the participants. To examine the result of pre- test and post- test the researcher applied statistical formula to calculate the average score of the tests, while the research hypothesis was analyzed by using the independent t- test from the SPSS for windows ver. 22. In accordance with the data analysis, the students’ average score of pre- test was (46, 94) and the post test was (75, 65), thus it showed the improvement of students’ score before and after conducted the treatment. According to the result of the t- test, the value of tscore is higher than ttable (12,068> 2, 0739), which indicated that the alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be conclude that the use of task- based language teaching can improve the students’ reading comprehension. Additionally, the result of questionnaire showed that the majority of students responded positively to the implementation of task- based language teaching in the Process of learning and teaching in reading class.