An Analysis of Students’ Needs in Reading Comprehension of Eight Grader of SMP IT Fathona Baturaja

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Henny Yulia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Learning English

The Problems of the study concerned with whether or not the students’ need English for specific purposes in reading. In addition, the study was done to find out the student’s need in reading comprehension. Total sampling method was used to take the sample. The sample was 11 students from the eighth grade in academic year 2019/2020. A Descriptive method was used in this study. The writer used questionnaires and documentation in collecting the data. The result of study from view of Target needs (necessities) showed that 72.8% claimed that they hope that learning English could support their future works. The result of target needs showed that 45.5% were in beginner level. 81.8% want to be able to master both general vocabulary and Islamic world terms. Moreover, the result of learning needs, input in reading comprehension 72.7% claimed that reading can add English vocabulary. From procedure in reading, 54.5% said that they were agree with arranging random paragraphs or sentences into a correct or logical paragraph sequence of sentence. Next, 90.9% students wanted to do the study outside the classroom, 45.5% claimed that they were strongly agree with activity in discussing and being active in investigation. The last, 54.5% students were strongly agreed that teachers must create an active atmosphere to solve problems and doing assignment.

scholarly journals Buzz Group Technique to Promote Students Reading Comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Afifah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
T Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Paired T Test ◽  
Group Technique

This present study was quasi experiment research. This study aimed to find out whether or not there is any the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension by using buzz group technique. The population of the study was all the eighth grade students of SMP SENTOSA BAKTI BATURAJA in Academic Year 2019/ 2020. The sample was taken by using cluster random sampling. The sample is divided by two experimental class and control group. The try-out was done at VIII. C with 22 respondents. The data was collected by using test. The reliability of the data was taken through Alpha Cronbach. The data were analyzed by using paired T-test of control class and paired t-test of experimental class and independent t-test too. The result showed that from the mean score was 71 improved to be 84, 6 and based on independent T-test the value of T obtained was 8,122 as significant level of 0.05 for 2 tailed testing and degree of freedom (df) was 48 the critical value of T table 3, 425. The value was higher than T table (8,122>3,425) and the value sig, (2 tailed)= 0.000 less than the value of significant level (0.05).  It mean that there was significant improvement the students who was taught by using buzz group technique and those who was not at SMP SENTOSA BAKTI Baturaja. It concluded that Buzz group technique was effective to promote students’ reading comprehension at the Eighth Grade students of SMP SENTOSA BAKTI BATURAJA.

scholarly journals TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CONCEPT ORIENTED READING INSTRUCTION (CORI) STRATEGYTO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 13 LUBUKLINGGAU

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Ardayati Ardayati ◽  
Herlina Herlin
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Test Calculation ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Paired T Test

The problem of this research was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to improve reading comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year 2016/2017. The strategy applied was pre experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design.. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling. The result was VIII.2 class with the total number of 28 students. The data were collected through test consisted of 25 items of multiple choices. The data were analyzed through four techniques: 1) Students’ Individual Score, 2) Minimum Mastery Criteria, 3) Normality and 4) Paired t-test calculation. The result of this study: (1) The mean students’ score in the pre-test was 64.00, (2) The mean score of post-test was 76.00 and (3) the result of paired t-test was 11.43, which was higher than 1.703 value of the t-table of 27 (28-1) with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. In this research the researcher formulated two hypotheses. They were null hypothesis (Ho) and alternative hypothesis (Ha). Based on the result of the paired t-test calculation showed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant that it was significantly effective to Teach Reading Comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017

scholarly journals THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE USE OF REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WRITING AS WRITING ACTIVITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Yuli Herman ◽  
Nadya Shakila Feronika ◽  
Risza Dwiputri
Keyword(s):  
Journal Writing ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Reflective Journal ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Writing Activity

This study was aimed to know the attitude of students towards the use Reflective Journal Writing a writingactivity at the excellent classes of eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Solok in 2019/2020 academic year. The research method used in this study was quantitative descriptive. The population in this research was the excellent classes of eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Solok in 2019/2020 academic year. The total of population was 66 students of 2 classses The technique sample used was total sampling, where all the students in excellent classes, class VIII A and VIII B were  included as the sample in the research. To get the data of the research, the researcher used questionnaire. The research design included a 5 point Likert-type questionnaire which were strongly agree (SA), Agree (A), Undecided (U), Disagree (D), and strongly Disagree (SD). In this case the researcher used 44 number of statements which based on 3 indicators of students’ attitude. The indicators of attitude were divided into cognitive, emotion and behavioral aspects. The finding of this research show the final percentage of students’ attitude towards reflective journal writing was 76%, it was classified as in the “very good” level. It means students had a very positive attitude towards the use of reflective journal writing as writing activity.

scholarly journals The Descriptive Study on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Scanning Recount Text of The Eighth Grade Students at SMP N 1 Glagah in The 2013/2014 Academic Year

LUNAR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Subayil Subayil
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
First Language ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Academic Year

Reading is a multileveled and interactive process in which readers contruct a meaningful representation of text using their schemata. While it has been known for some time that both content and formal schemata are necessary for complete understanding of written texts in a reader’s first language (L1), and has been suspected to be true in the reader’s second language (L2). The purpose of this thesis is twofold. The first, to give a brief overview of some of the literature that deals with scanning as the alternative technique to teach reading comprehension. The second goal, to disscuss the implemetation of scaaning in the reading class. This classroom action research was intended to comprehend students’ reading in scanning recount text at SMPN 1 Glagah in the 2013/2014 academic year. It was conducted at the eighth year students. The respondent oh this research was consisted of 54 students who cocsisted of each class of the eighth grade. This respondents were chosen becouse they were as example of sample to establish the technique had goal or not. Involving the English teacher's preparation, the instructional activities conducted by the teachers, the material or technique used in the teaching of reading comprehension, the evaluation reading comprehension, and other factors that students succeed in the reading comprehension. The instruments of collecting data used test and documentation. The reading comprehension focused in recount text which used scanning technique. The reading comprehension test was used to get primary data about the students’ reading comprehension of English passages. In the implementation to find the value of reading comprehension by scanning techinique for the first time was providing related question reading test of recount text. It was done to determine the value students reading comprehension by using that technique mentioned above. So that, it will be known later on how to comprehend reading text. In the evaluation, the researcher got the test score from the respondent or students. Based on the result, it be concluded that the reading comprehension by scaanning technique had side-effect to improve the reading ability students and help the students of the eighth grade at SMPN 1 Glagah who they got some reading test which focused in recount text.

scholarly journals KORELASI PENGGUNAAN STRATEGI MEMBACA SELEKTIF TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN TEKS PENDEK DOKKAI (Penelitian Deskriptif Pada Mahasiswa Tingkat II Tahun Ajaran 2014/2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Adhistiara Amalia Ananda ◽  
Ahmad Dahidi ◽  
Juju Juangsih
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Strategic Measures ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Level Student

ABSTRAKSebagai pembelajar bahasa Jepang, membaca artikel dalam bahasa Jepang sangat diperlukan, membaca artikel bahasa Jepang selain meningkatkan wawasan tentang perkembangan kehidupan negara Jepang dalam segala bidang, juga dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa seseorang. Dalam pembelajaran bahasa Jepang terdapat beberapa keterampilan yang dipelajari, salah satunya adalah dokkai. Dokkai adalah keterampilan memahami teks dalam waktu singkat. Untuk dapat memahami teks dalam waktu singkat dibutuhkan usaha dan langkah-langkah strategis. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan hubungan antara strategi membaca dengan pemahaman membaca teks dokkai dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif pendekatan kuantitatif. Pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini menggunakan 2 jenis instrumen, yaitu tes tertulis dan angket yang dilakukan pada 20 responden. Dari penelitian tersebut, diperoleh hasil nilai koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,91 yang menunjukan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang sigifikan antara penggunaan strategi membaca selektif dengan kemampuan pemahaman membaca teks dokkai dan sebesar 82% tingkat pemahaman membaca teks dokkai dipengaruhi oleh strategi membaca dan 18% oleh faktor lain. Oleh karena itu hipotesis dari penelitian ini diterima bahwa penggunaan strategi membaca memiliki hubungan positif terhadap prestasi pemahaman membaca mahasiswa tingkat II Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa Jepang tahun ajaran 2014/2015.  Keyword : Strategi membaca selektif, membaca pemahaman, korelasi  ABSTRACTAs a student of the Japanese language, reading the Japanese article is necessary, read the Japanese article beside to increase knowledge about the development of the life of Japanese nationals in all fields, can also increase a someone’s language ability. In the Japanese language learning skills learned there are several, one of which is dokkai. Dokkai is a skill to understand the text in a short time. To be able to understand the text in the short time it takes effort and strategic measures. This  research was conduted to know is there a significant relationship between reading comprehension text Japanese skill and reading selective stretegies. This research used descriptive method. This research used two kinds of instrument to assemble data, which were questionnaire and test. The data were taken by regration and colleration technique, which was taking data at once in the same time. The participants of the research were 20 students of Japanese Language Departement Indonesia University of Education. From the result, it was found that the correlation coefficient 0,91 which is significant relationship between reading comprehension text Japanese skill and reading selective stretegies and 82% level reading comprehension influenced by selective reading strategies and 18% of another factors. Therefore, hypothesized in this research is recived that used reading selective have a positive relationship with reading comprehension text Japanese skill in 2 level student of Departement of Japanese Language, Indonesia of Education University in academic year 2014/2015. Keyword : corelation between reading selective strategies, reading comprehension, correlation

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE STUDENT’S READING SKILL TROUGH SQ3R TECHNIQUE IN MTS AL-KHAIRIYAH

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Titi Widiawati ◽  
Ida Nuraida ◽  
Sisca Wulansari Saputri
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract. The objectives of this research is to figure out whether or not the implementation of SQ3R technique can improve reading comprehension of the eighth grade students of Mts Al-Khairiyah in academic year 2018/2019. Therefore, to achieve the objective, the writer conducted a action research. This research was conducted in two cycles where each cycle had 2 sessions. The data were analyzed by comparing the result of pre-test and post-test. The result post- test showed the significant improvement. This research furthermore showed that most of the subjects gave positive response that SQ3R technique was successfully applied in improving the subjects’ reading comprehension. In conclusion, the present classroom action study proved that SQ3R technique could improve reading comprehension of the eighth grade students of Mts Al-Khairiyah in academic year 2018/2019.

scholarly journals TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION BY USING PREDICT, LOCATE, ADD NOTE STRATEGY TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 2 LUBUKLINGGAU

ELT-Lectura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Maria Ramasari ◽  
Cintia Novtarina
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mastery Criteria ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

The purpose of this research was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to teach reading comprehension by using Predict, Locate, Add Note strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher used pre experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population was all the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau which consisted of 440 students. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling. The sample was 40 students. The data was collected through test consisted of 20 items of multiple choices. The data were analyzed through four techniques: 1) students’ individual score, 2) minimum mastery criteria, 3) normality, and 4) matched t-test calculation. The result of this research: (1) the mean students’ score in the pre-test was 62.3, (2) The mean score of post-test was 77.3, and (3) the result of Matched t-test was 10.86, which was higher than 1.684 value of the t-table of 39 (40-1) with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. Therefore, null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that it was significantly effective to teach reading comprehension by using Predict, Locate, Add Note Strategy to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2016/2017.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Students' Speaking Difficulties at Eighth Grade Smpit At-Taqwa Surabaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayat ◽  
Zhela Meylinda Clarita
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Descriptive Method

The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties of students in speaking English. The researcher used a qualitative descriptive method in this study. The subjects of this study were eighth-grade students A and D SMPIT At-Taqwa 2018/2019 academic year consisting of 40 students and English teachers. Data collections of this study were observation, student questionnaires, and student and teacher interviews. The results of this study indicate that 25% of students have difficulty speaking English. The efforts made by students and teachers to overcome difficulties in speaking English such as: taking English tutoring, listening English songs, practicing reading, writing and speaking at home and school. They also communicate through social media with foreign citizens, joining English Camp, watching western movies or change film subtitles with English. Then the solution given by the teacher is an additional lesson hour to support students who felt difficult in speaking English.

scholarly journals APPLYING MURDER TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP SANTO THOMAS 1 MEDAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-174
Author(s):  
Siska Ria Pandiangan ◽  
Anna Stasya Prima Sari Sinaga ◽  
Fiber Yun A. Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Alternative Technique ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of this study is to find whetever Murder technique works effectively on improving students’ reading comprehension and to describe the students’ responses towards the application of Murder technique in the learning teaching processes of reading comprehension. The subject of the study in the seventh grade students of SMP Santo Thomas 1 Medan in the Academic Year of 2020/2021 consisting 32 students of class VII-A. This study  was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (henceforth CAR). The result of the test showed that the students’  mean  score in pre-test is 55,00  with 16% of students got ≥ 70, in formative test is 68,13 with 38% of students got score ≥ 70, and 83,13 in post test  with 100% of students got score ≥ 70. The qualitative data analysis showed that the students’ responses after being taught by using Murder Technique are very good. The percentage students who strongly agree is 26 (81%), agree is 27 (84%), there is no students choose strongly disagree and disagree. It is suggested that the English teachers use Murder Technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading to the students in Junior High School in order to improve their students’ reading comprehension.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH COOPERATIVE SCRIPT AT SMP NEGERI 21 MEDAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Novi Indah Yanta Br PeranginAngin ◽  
Linus Rumapea ◽  
Fiber Yunan Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

This study is intended to answer the problem in what way does the cooperative script improvement of students’ Reading Comprehension to the Eighth Grade Students’ of SMP Negeri Medan Jaya in the academic year 2016/2017. This study is classroom action research. The tools of data collection used observation, interview and test. On the first cycle the researcher used cooperative script to improve the students’ ability in comprehending on information of descriptive text about animal. The result of this research showed that the students ability in comprehending a descriptive text improved after applied the cooperative script. With this activity, students had more practice in reading. Besides, during the reading process students were active in asked and answered questions, this method also guide students to summarize the information of the passage. Consequently, the method successfully improved the students’ ability in reading comprehension of descriptive text. 

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