This Experiment is aimed at finding out whether Teams Games Tournament there is an
interaction effect between teaching methods and students’ confidence on the students’ reading class.
The Experiment was carried out at MAN 1 Purwokerto in the academic year of 2014/2015. The Study
method used was an Experiment study. The populations were XI Social 1 as the Experimental Class
and XI Social 2 as the Control class of MAN 1 Purwokerto in the academic year of 2014/2015. The
sample was taken by using cluster stratified sampling. The techniques of collecting the data were the
Questionnaires, Observation and Interview. The three instruments were valid and reliable after both
were tried-out. The data were analyzed by using multifactor analysis of percentage. It can be proved
that, the post questionnaire intended to find the effectiveness of TGT for improving students’
confidence percentage of the experimental class (89.52%) was higher than the second questionnaire
percentage of control class (86.57 %). Furthermore, to prove the effectiveness of TGT for improving
students’ confidence, the experimental also used the observations. And the result of the second
observations which aimed to find the effectiveness of TGT were 75.4% with the 18.66%
improvement for the Experimental class and the effectiveness of conventional method which was
given to the Control class is 70.3% with 1% improvement. And from the interview with the English
Primary Teacher she also agreed that TGT is also effective to make students to be more confident and
can be the solution for applying character education. It means that the hypothesis that TGT is
effective for improvingstudents’ confidence is accepted.