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 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 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 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 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 EFFECTIVENESS OF USING KAHOOT AS A MEDIA IN TEACHING READING

JURNAL ELINK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ima Chusnul Chotimah ◽  
Muhammad Farhan Rafi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
English Department ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Test Treatment

This research focuses on the use of Kahoot as a media in teching reading for the English Departement students of STKIP PGRI Jombang in academic year 2017/2018. The method used is experimental research with quasi experimental design. There are two classes, they are 2016 B as the experimental class and 2016 A as the control class. The teaching process done in experimental class was using Kahoot as a media, while in 2016 A was using textbook as a media. The instrument used was a test. Before giving the test, the researchers did the content validity and construct validity by conducting the tryout to know the validity and reliability criteria of the test. After knowing all of them are valid and reliable, giving pre test, treatment, and post test was done to get the data of the research. After that, the researchers analyzed the data by using ANCOVA. The result shows that the significant value is 0.02, it is lower than the significant level 0.05. It means that the use of Kahoot as a media for the English Department students of STKIP PGRI Jombang influences their reading skill.

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 QAR : A Reading Strategy To Enhance Non-English Department Students Reading Skill

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Wahyuni ◽  
Nurlailalatulaqromi Nurlailalatulaqromi ◽  
Tiara Retno Haryani
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
English Department ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Teaching Learning

Question Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy is a teaching strategy in teaching reading comprehension. By applying the strategy, teacher can assist the students to comprehend a reading text easier though they have a limit vocabulary. This strategy allows students to comprehend the text by relating the questions and the answers that can be classified into two big categories, in the text” and “in my head. At the end of the teaching learning process, students are supposed to be creative in comprehending a text using the QAR strategy. By implementing the strategy, the students are expected to extend the reading materials and continue to read more written materialsKeywords: Question Answer Relationship (QAR), Reading Skill

scholarly journals A Discussion on A Code Sound Reading System: A Case Study of I Can Read Greenville Language Center

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Wiwik Andreani ◽  
Junita Junita
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
System A ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Reading System

Article described the code sound reading system applied in I Can Read (ICR) Greenville language center. The research was done qualitatively through the observation of teaching and learning process in three different classes of ICR 1 level at the center. A pre-test and post-test for reading were taken from Book 2 of ICR 1. Participants were three classes with three different teachers having different working experiences. The results of the research were: (1) the use of code sounds in reading was useful to improve students’ reading skill which was shown by the increasing of correctly pronounced code sounds; (2) the students’ reading skill and reading comprehension had improved, regardless the teachers’ teaching style. In conclusion, a code sound reading system is successful in helping students to improve their reading skill and reading comprehension, regardless the teachers’ teaching style.

scholarly journals Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Role Plays: A Classroom Action Research at MTs Mualimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta in Academic Year 2011/2012

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juang Kurniawan Syahruzah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Test Result

The aim of this research is to find out how the implementation of role plays can improve the students’ speaking skill of grade VII of MTs Mualimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta in academic year 2011/2012 and how students respond to the use of role plays methods in teaching and learning process. This research is an action research. In this study the researcher uses action research theory proposed by Kemmis and McTaggart. The participants of the research are the students of grade VII of MTs Mualimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta in academic year 2011/2012. The research instrument used by the writer is in the form of observation checklist and test. The data in the research are mainly gathered through the use of pre-test, observation, questionnaires, and post-test. After the data are collected, the researcher analyzes them. The researcher uses the pre-test as the basis for measuring the students’ reading skill. The finding of the research shows that the implementation of translation and discussion can improve students’ speaking skill of grade VII of MTs Muhammmadiyah Yogyakarta in academic year 2011/2012. In the pre-test result, in which they formerly did not learn using discussion and translation, the mean of the pre-test was 55.64. After they learnt English using discussion and translation, the mean of the post-test was 63.3. The students’ response was positive when role plays methods were applied in teaching speaking.

Improving Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension Through Advance Organizer Strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuti Andriani Siregar ◽  
Didik Santoso ◽  
Anni Holila Pulungan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Advance Organizer ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Passing Grade

This study deals with the improvement of the students’ achievement in reading comprehension through advance organizer strategy. The objectives of this research were to improve the students’ achievement in reading comprehension as well as the process of learning reading comprehension by using advance organizer strategy.  The subject of the study was grade XI IPA 2 Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Binjai consisting of 33 students. The data of this study were obtained by using test, observation sheets and interview. This research was conducted in two cycles because in the pre-test (without treatment), the average of the students’ score was 59,24. In the first cycle test, it was 74,30. It is lower than the minimum passing grade, and if is viewed from the observation sheets, the situation of the learning process hasn’t met the criteria of the success. So the writer continued to the second cycle. There was a significant progress on the students’ achievement in reading comprehension in the second cycle, and the average of the students was 82,94. The students were more active and enthusiastic in following the lesson. Therefore, the teaching reading comprehension through advance organizer strategy can improve the students’ achievement in reading comprehension quantitatively and qualitatively. Key words:  improving, reading comprehension, advance organizer strategy.

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