The Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Reading and their Influence on Reading Comprehension of Junior High School Students in the Upland Region of Java

This study aimed to determine the factors affecting writing skill quality and the level of their contribution to help language teachers to formulate more effective strategies using CAT to enhance writing skill. The correlating factors discussed in this research were students’ reading comprehension skill, vocabulary mastery, and attitude toward language. The study applied quantitative approach with simple and multiple correlation and regression techniques. The samples of the study were 100 students taken using stratified random sampling technique from a population of 2000 junior high school students in Surakarta City. The data were collected using multiple choice test for students’ reading comprehension skills and vocabulary mastery, writing assignments, and questionnaires for their attitudes toward the Indonesian language. The findings showed that there are positive correlations between the independent variables, either individually or simultaneously, with writing skill. The individual contribution levels is 44.75% of reading comprehension skill, 27.70% of vocabulary mastery, and 28.5% of attitude toward language. As for the simultaneous correlation of the three determining factors make up to 45.16%. contribution level to writing skill quality. Thus it can be concluded that reading comprehension has the most contribution to writing skill compared to vocabulary mastery and attitude toward language. The identified levels of contribution can be taken into consideration in formulating teaching strategies and materials to enhance writing skill quality.

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ENHANCING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN REPORT TEXT BY USING CONCEPT MAPPING STRATEGY

Journal of English Language Teaching ◽

10.24036/jelt.v9i1.107890 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Afila Teddy Defri ◽

An Fauzia Rozani Syafei

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Reading Comprehension ◽

High School Students ◽

Concept Mapping ◽

Junior High School ◽

Junior High ◽

Junior High School Students ◽

School Students ◽

Mapping Strategy ◽

Report Text

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways of using concept mapping strategies for enhancing Junior High School students’ reading comprehension in reading report text. Many students face difficulties in reading, like problems in their reading comprehension, cannot interpret what they read, and make the connection between what they read and what they have already known because they are unable to accurately understand written materials. Concept mapping can solve these problems by mapping their ideas, comprehending any scientific text especially for report text, analyze reading text easily, and make of conclusion from the text in a structural way. So, the concept mapping strategy is suitable for enhancing students’ reading comprehension and solve the problem.

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The Effectiveness of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension

10.31219/osf.io/uws5e ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Dodi Widia Nanda

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Reading Comprehension ◽

High School Students ◽

Junior High School ◽

Junior High ◽

Junior High School Students ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

School Students ◽

Post Test ◽

Quasi Experimental

Reading comprehension has been considered as a major issue in the Indonesian EFL context including in the junior high schools. Whereas in fact, Indonesian junior high school students have been asked by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture to understand various English texts effectively. Therefore, in an attempt to comply with the required criteria above, this paper proposes a possible solution to cope with Indonesian students’ reading comprehension issue. In this sense, CIRC proposed as a possible technique to enhance Indonesian junior high school students’ reading comprehension. Specifically, this research attempts to measure the effectiveness of CIRC technique on students’ reading comprehension at grade seven of a junior school located in West Sumatera, Indonesia namely the MTsN Koto Baru Junior High School. Accordingly, the study employed a quasi-experimental design, comparing students’ pre-test and post-test scores to measure the effectiveness of CIRC towards students’ reading comprehension. The different result between the pre-test and post-test tested using the paired sample t-test. It was found that students’ scores on pre-test (before treatment) was lower than post-test (after treatment). Thus, it can be inferred that CIRC was effective to increase students’ reading comprehension.

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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH PREVIEW,QUESTION, READ,REFLECT, RECITE, AND REVIEW (PQ4R)

REGISTER Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed ◽

10.24114/reg.v3i2.1125 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Mediana Manalu And Bachtiar

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Reading Comprehension ◽

High School Students ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Junior High School ◽

Junior High ◽

Junior High School Students ◽

School Students ◽

The Mean ◽

Second Year

This study concerned on improving students’ achievement in readaing comprehensionnarrative text through preview, question, read, reflect, recite, and review (PQ4R) technique.This study was limited on the second year junior high school students’ achievement inreading comprehension after teaching by applying preview,question, read, reflect, recite, andreview ( PQ4R).The objective of this study was to find out the improvement of students,achievement on reading comprehension through PQ4R technique.The subject of the studywas VIII-1 students of SMP N 4 Pagaran. The numbers of the students were 35. Thetechniques for data analysis were quantitative dataand qualitative data.In analyzing thequantitative data, the mean of the students’ score for the test I cycle I was 53.62, the meanscore of test II in cycle II was 73.28, the mean of test III in cycle II was 75.65. Theconclusion is that PQ4R can improve the students’ achievement in reading comprehensionnarrative text.

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