scholarly journals TEACHING READING BY USING WFR (WARMING-UP FOR READING) TO INCREASE READING SKILL

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Afifah Linda Sari ◽  
Radityo Tri Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Teaching Learning

Abstract: This research is aimed at describing the implementation of teaching reading by using WFR, to describe the problems of using WFR in teaching reading and to know the students’ response of the implementation of WFR. The result of this study is intended to give contribution to the teaching and learning English. The research was done to the second year students of SMP N 5 Banjarbaru. As the sample, the researcher took 40 students of IIA class. The data were collected through observation, interview and test. After collecting the data and analyzing them and describing the result of them by action research procedure, the researcher described the result of the research. The WFR was conducted in four meetings. It is appropriate in teaching reading and helps the students increasing/developing their reading skill. There are some problems faced by the students in teaching learning process: in which most of students have difficulties in arranging the sentence correctly, the students have difficulties in translating the word from English into Indonesian and Indonesian into English, the students do not understand the instruction of the worksheet, and the students have difficulties in finding the main idea of the text. During the teaching learning process from the first meeting until fourth meeting the response of the students is good. They were enthusiastic in every meeting. Evidently, the result of the hypothesis testing showed that the t- observation is always greater than the t-table; in degree of freedom N - 1 = 39 and level of significance 0,05. It means that there is a significant difference of the students’ achievement before and after the implementation of WFR. The conclusion is the teaching reading using WFR to the second year students of SMP N 5 Banjarbaru yields a good result. WFR is appropriate method in increasing the students reading skills and helpful in teaching-learning process. 

scholarly journals THE USE OF PQRST (PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ, STATE, TEST) IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT FOR EIGHT GRADERS STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 PURWOASRI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Zamratus Zahra Abdillah
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
New Information ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
State Test ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test

PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, and Test) Method is alternative method to make teaching and learning process interesting. Through PQRST method, the students can participate in the teaching and learning process actively. PQRST method is expected to be effective because the use of it can avoid the weakness of common method that be used in teaching and learning process. The research design used is quantitative and the method is one group pre-test and post-test experimental design. In this study, the data are collected from the result of pre-test and post-test. After getting result of score between pre-test and post-test, the data was couted by using SPSS to find t-test. It is used to describe whether there is significant difference between students' reading narrative text before and after being taught by using PQRST method. It is recommended for the teacher to use PQRST method. It can help them to develop their teching method, especially in teaching reading narrative text. It also recommended for the reader this research hopefully can add the new knowledge which they have not been known before and the last for the further researcher this research hopefully can give new information and references in doing same kind research, and they can improve this research to be complete and better.

scholarly journals Designing Big Story Book Project (BSBP) in Teaching Reading Comprehension

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Aswin Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Test Treatment

This research aimed find out the effectiveness of using big story book project (BSBP) in teaching reading comprehension and to know the advantages and the disadvantages of using BSBP in teaching reading comprehension. The researcher applied pre-experimental research design and consists of pre-test, treatment and post-test in order to find whether the big story book project (BSBP) effective in teaching reading comprehension. The instruments used in this research were reading test and questionnaire. The result from this research shows that using big story book project (BSBP) in teaching reading comprehension is effective. It is proved by the result that there is significant difference between the result of the students’ mean score in the pre-test and the post-test. In the pre-test, the students’ mean score is (43.79) and in the post-test is (80.37). Furthermore, it is proved by the probability value is smaller than α (0.00 < 0.05). On the other word, BSBP has advantages to the students if applied in teaching and learning process, especially in reading subject.

scholarly journals Using Audio – Visual Aids to Improve The Students’ Reading Skill

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Dwi Surya Atmaja
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

<p>This article is written in order to (1) know whether the use of Audio Visual aids can improve the students’ reading skill; and (2) know the strengths and weaknesses in using Audio Visual Aids in improving the students’ reading skill. The research finding shows that the use of video as Audio Visual media combined with SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review) can enhance the students’ reading skill and the class situation in teaching and learning activity. The improvement of students’ comprehension includes: (1) Students are able to determine the main idea; (2) Students are able to identify the implicit and explicit information; (3) Students are able to determine the meaning of word; 4) Students are able to determine the purpose of the text; (5) Students are able to determine the reference of pronouns. The improvement of the students’ attitudes are: (1) The students enjoyed and interested in the class situation; (2) The students become active learners; (3) The students were not noisy during teaching learning activity;</p><p>(4) The students paid attention to the teacher.</p>

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF USING COMPOSITE PICTURES ON READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Fatma Dewani Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
English Text ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
The Media ◽  
Learning English

Reading Comprehension is the ability to read text, process it and understand the meaning. It relies on two, interconnected abilities: Word reading be able to decode the symbols on the page and language comprehension being able to understand the meaning of words and sentences . In fact, students generally feel bored and unmotivated in learning English especially in reading skill because English is different from Indonesian so that the students have difficulty in understanding reading English text. They do not know the meaning of some words in the text. Therefore, the teacher’s role becomes important in the teaching and learning process especially in teaching reading. Therefore, appropriate media should be chosen to motivate their students not only to read the text but also comprehend what they read. One of the media that can be used and applied by the teacher is Composite Pictures. A Composite Picture is a large single picture which shows a scene in which a number of people can be seen doing several things. Thus, to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Composite Pictures on reading comprehension achievement; Composite Pictures was used as media in teaching reading in this research.

scholarly journals Applying Skimming Strategy in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Vemby Ari Sandi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
T Test ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Numeric Information

Reading is an important activity to enrich knowledge. However, it is considered as a difficult skill to learn. There are many students facing difficulties in comprehending the content of the reading text, including descriptive text. A strategy which can solve such problems is needed. Skimming strategy is the strategy which enable students to quickly find the main idea and relevant information of the text. Based on those reasons, the research questions are proposed as follows: (1) How can skimming strategy be implemented in teaching reading descriptive texts? and (2) How can the second year students’ reading comprehension ability be improved using skimming strategy? This study used two research methods. Those were qualitative and quantitative research design. They were collected to prove the implementation and the significant improvement by using skimming strategy. Both numeric information and the real observation were evaluated to gain clear and strong data. The researcher acted as the observer to see the process of teaching and learning descriptive texts in three stages. The results of the research showed that the teacher and students implemented four steps of skimming strategy, which are: (1) read the first several paragraph; (2) leave out material; (3) find the main ideas; (4) read fast. The t-test of this research was also calculated to see whether there was a significant difference between control and experimental class and the mean was also measured to see the students’ improvement score. The mean score of experimental class was better than the mean score of control class. However, the t-test result showed that there was no significant difference between experimental and control class.

scholarly journals Use of Quizizz In Improving Students' Reading Skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Diah Ayu Manik Pradnyadewi ◽  
Putu Enik Kristiani
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Alternative Learning ◽  
Timely Feedback ◽  
Technological Developments

Using various learning media in teaching reading are need to avoid the monotonous learning activities which make students easily bored. With increasingly sophisticated technological developments, teachers can apply the Quizizz application as learning media to improve students’ reading skill.  The Quizizz application has characteristics such as avatars, themes, memes, and music which are very entertaining in the learning process. At the time they play the game, actually they are reading a lot and learning to understand the meaning of the reading. In addition, the Quizizz Application also has timely feedback, a review section, and repeats tests and follows new quizzes.  This literature study reviews some papers in studying the implications of Quizziz and its advantages. The aim of this paper is to share the use of Quizizz Application in improving students reading skill. The findings of this study are expected can be an alternative learning media used by both teacher and students in supporting teaching and learning process in reading.

scholarly journals Chunking Strategy; in Enhancing Fourth Semester Students’ Reading Skill at English Department of Muhammadiyah University

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Jusmin HJ Wahid ◽  
Iswan A. Thais
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
English Department ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Post Test ◽  
True Experiment

Teaching reading skill to the students needs applying the appropriate strategy to stimulate students’ understanding to meet the main purpose in the teaching and learning process. It was expected that the strategy itself should be able to be used by the teacher to design the better ways for the students in order to acquire important information. It is realized that many students now need as much information as possible in comprehending all the texts they read. To overcome this problem, the researcher used chunking strategy to improve students’ reading skill. The researcher used true experiment to design this research, then the pre-test was used to find out whether this group in the same level and the post-test was used to detect the progress of the students. The total numbers of the students who involved in the pre-test and post-test were 20. The data showed that the information in the post-test that;  mean score was 70.50, and the pre-test got score was 61.85 then the standard deviation in the post-test was 10.32 and the standard deviation in pre-test is 8.27. It could be concluded that the students get significant progress in their understanding of reading skill by using Chunking strategy in English Department.

scholarly journals THE TEACHING ANALYSIS OF READING COMPREHENSION: A CASE OF THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP PGRI 01 SEMARANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuli Anita ◽  
Dias Andris Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Team Games ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of the study are1) To know the teaching on reading comprehension at the eight grade of SMP PGRI 01 Semarang in academic year 2016/2017, 2) To know the problems faced by the teacher in teaching learning process of reading comprehension, and 3) To know the solutions of the problem faced in teaching learning process. This research uses qualitative method. The subject of this research was three teachers of class VIII A, VIII F, and VIII G. The instruments used in this research were observation sheet and interview, so the data use was collected through observation and interview. The result of the research showed that 1) the first teacher was first participant implementing reading stage in teaching and learning process. In first participant teaching, the researcher found the problem, it was the difficulty in implementing teaching reading. The solution first participant was make strategy to make student fun. 2) the second teacher was second participant. There was only one interaction, that was the teacher explained the materials then the students kept silent, or the students read something then the teachers listened to them. 3) the third teacher was third participant. The problem it was boredom, and the solution was making question and answer for them. Teachers concluded that reading comprehension is very effective but it can not to be the key in teaching and learning process. From the data which is obtained from documentation and observation inteaching English, the objectives of English teaching can be viewed from kinds of strategy and tecnique in teaching and learning process. Suggestion are 1) for teachers, it is better for them to use Team Games Tournament to teach the students in reading comprehension, 2) for students have to study harder and try to read English more and more, and 3) for the reader to be able to get more information and experiences in the purpose of developing and improving their knowledge, especially in reading comprehensio

scholarly journals THE USE OF CUE CARDS FOR TEACHING WRITING OF BIOGRAPHY TEXT

Prominent ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulya Maliyatika ◽  
Muh Syafei ◽  
Rusiana Rusiana
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Good Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Written Test ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

Students at schools learn to write in order to express their ideas well. They should have a good ability in writingEnglish texts. However, many students find it difficult to express their ideas in a paragraph, and to make a composition correctly. The media factorseems to be one that makes the teaching-learning process unable to achieve its goal. Therefore, the authors propose to apply Cue Cards as teaching media to overcome the problem.The objective of the research is to scrutinize whether there is a significant difference between teaching writing of biography textbefore and that after being taught by using Cue Cards.This experimentemployed one group with pretest and posttest design was conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 KaranganyarDemakin academic year 2017/2018 insecond semester. There were 34 students of grade XI IPS 1 taken as the sample through cluster random sampling.The datasetsfor this research were collected through written test. Before cue cards were used in the treatment, the measn score was60. After cue cards were used in some meetings of treatment, the mean score is 82. The hypothesis of the research stated that there is a significant difference between teaching writing of biography text on the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1KaranganyarDemak in academic year 2017/2018) before and after being taught by using cue cardsis confirmed. It can be seen from the calculation of t-test, withdegree offreedom (df) = 33, α = 0,05,  t (critical) is ±2.042 and t (obtained) is 8.79. The analysis showed that Ho was denied and Ha was confirmed.Therefore, it is suggested to the English teacherto keep usingcue cardsin teaching writing of biography text.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMIC STRIPS USE TOWARDS READING SKILL OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 9 YOGYAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Arifiana Tri Wulandari ◽  
Soviyah Soviyah
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Teaching Learning

Teaching method is one of the aspects that must be given attention in a teaching learning process. The use of media becomes important strategy to get success in teaching learning process especially in teaching reading. The use of comic strips in teaching reading is expected to increase the students’ achievement in reading. The aim of this research is to find out the effectiveness of comic strips in reading skill for students at the seventh grade of SMP N 9 Yogyakarta.This research is an experimental research. This research was conducted in the SMP N 9 Yogyakarta on 5th May until 19th May, 2017. The population of this research was the seventh grade students, and the samples of this research were 7B as the control class and 7C as the experimental class. The analysis technique used was quantitative. The instrument used in this research was pretest and posttest. The researcher used SPSS to analyze and calculate the data and to test the hypothesis.      The result of the calculation is to > ttable, it means that the Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The mean of the pretest was 52.80, and the mean of the posttest was 75.45. Based on the result of this research, it showed that the use of comic strips in teaching reading was effective.

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