scholarly journals The Effect of Differentiated Instruction on Developing English Reading Comprehension Skill of Sixth Graders

Author(s):  
Refat Mahmoud Bahgat Bahgat ◽  
Gamal Mohammed Shehata Shehata ◽  
Amer Bakeer Ali Ali ◽  
Mahfouz Haress Salem Salem
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Imam Munandar ◽  
Srimurni Srimurni

This research manages to analyze the effectiveness of  DRA in enhancing students ‘skill in reading comprehension. The researchers carried out the research at SMP N 4 Takengon, in which they found that teachers faced some problems in teaching reading comprehension to students. To figure out the answer, the research applies quantitative research with experimental approach. After statistically obtaining and interpreting the data, the study concludes that Directed Reading Activity (DRA) method is able to increase students reading comprehension skill. This is because that Directed Reading Activity (DRA) is a teacher strategy in reading comprehension that emphasizes on instructional support before, during, and aftermath the reading. Meanwhile, the research found that this strategy is also able to increase and build stronger student vocabulary and reading skill. In conclusion, the DRA strategy is effective in improving students’ ability in reading comprehension, and also building their vocabulary.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Ahmed , Martin Thomas, Shams Hamid

It is widely accepted that English reading comprehension skill is vital for academic success. Yet a majority of Pakistani teachers adopt the traditional grammartranslation approach, which fail to assist students to comprehend course contents that are taught in English. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of interactive reading comprehension strategies and traditional grammar-translation reading comprehension approach. This research used a quasi-experiment research design and the independent sample t-test to compare the reading comprehension skills of 10th grade students of two different schools of district Korangi, Karachi. The findings of the study proved significant improvements in English reading comprehension skills of the interactive reading comprehension treatment group over the grammar-translation treatment group.  


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Herlina Herlina

This research aims at obtaining data on improving English reading comprehension skill in Grade III, Labschool Primary School, Setiabudi, South Jakarta. The research subjects were the students of Grade III in the second semester of 2014/2015 school academic year. The research model used Kemmis and Mc. Taggard model covering planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The data of reading comprehension evaluation showed that in the first cycle 55.5 % of the students gained >75 and in the second cycle 83.33 % of them gained >75. While based on the monitoring data, the activities of the teacher and the students were 55 % in the first meeting of the cycle I and increased to 85 % in the first meeting of the cycle II. Therefore, SQ4R method can improve English reading comprehension skill of the Grade III students in Labschool Primary School, Setiabudi, South Jakarta.


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