scholarly journals Teaching Descriptive Text Using Pictures to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Desriani Nggolaon ◽  
Puput Eka Sari

The purpose of this research is to know whether the pictures in descriptive text can improve students’ reading comprehension or not at the Tenth Grade Students in SMA Negeri 1 Luwuk. The research design in this research was quasi-experimental using non-equivalent control group design. The Independent variable of this research was pictures and the dependent variable was students’ reading comprehension. The Population of this research all students of IPA in SMA Negeri 1 Luwuk of the Tenth Grade were about 216 students, each class consisted of 36 students and the sample of this research were X MIPA 1 and X MIPA 2. The instrument used of this research was test. This research has two classes, experimental class and was control class. The data were taken by giving pre-test and post-test both of classes. The data indicated that, there was a significant difference between students’ pre-test and post-test in the experimental class. The mean score of students’ pre-test of experimental class was (57.02) and the mean score of post-test was (77.97). In experimental class, mean score of post-test was higher than mean score of pre-test. The result of the calculation statistical hypothesis test showed tvalue was higher than ttable (6.618  1.667) where the formula of significance level df = 005. Therefore, it was concluded that there was a significance effect of using pictures to improve student’ reading comprehension in teaching descriptive text at the Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Luwuk.Keywords: Pictures; Students’ Reading Comprehension; Descriptive text.

Author(s):  
Ida Yuliani

This study focuses on the investigation of the influence of teacher’s teaching technique on student’s reading comprehension achievement using comic strips media. In this study, the writer used a quasi-experimental design. The population of this study is tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Buay Madang Timurwith 122 students, meanwhile, the writer used purposive sampling as a method for taking a sample. Therefore, class X.MIA 2 was chosen as an experimental group that is taught reading comprehension using comic strips and class X.IIS 2 as a control group who were taught reading comprehension using conventional media. Moreover, the writer used multiple-choice descriptive text. Based on the finding, the mean score of the pre-test experimental group was 50.97 and the mean score of the post-test experimental group was 78.84. While the mean score of the pre-test control group was 38.40 and the post-test score was 43.07 and the result of analyzing the data using SPSS 16, P output was 0.000, It is less than the critical value significance level (0.05). It means that alternative hypotheses (Ha) is accepted and null hypotheses (Ho) is rejected. It can be concluded that there is any significance between the students who are taught by using comic strips media and the students who are taught by using conventional media.


Author(s):  
Lusi Fitriani ◽  
Muslih Hambali

The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) whether or not there was a significant improvement in speaking skill of students who were exposed to chain storytelling and (2) whether or not there was a significant difference in speaking skill between students who were exposed to chain storytelling and those who were not. The sample of this study was 60 tenth grade students of SMA Srijaya Negara, which were divided into control and experimental group, and each group had 30 students. To collect the data, each group was assigned pretest and post test. The data analyses used paired sample t test and independent sample t test in SPSS. The result from paired sample t test showed that the mean difference in post test and pretest of experimental group was 16.000 at the significance level of p<0.05 and since t obtained was higher than t table (9.649>2.04523), H01 was rejected and there was a significant improvement in speaking skill of experimental group. The highest contribution was given by story elaboration aspect (content), and then followed by pronunciation, vocabulary, fluency and grammar. The result from independent sample t test showed that the mean difference between post test of experimental group and control group was 2.4000 at the significance level of p>0.05 with t obtained<t table (0.942<2.00171), since t obtained was lower than t table, H02 was accepted and there was no significant difference in speaking skill between students who were taught by using chain storytelling and those who were not. Nevertheless, the mean difference from the experimental group was higher than that of control group (16.600>7.133). Keywords: teaching speaking, chain storytelling


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (`1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Hariyati Hariyati ◽  
Lely Setyawati

The aim of research is to know the effectiveness of Number Head Together (NHT) in Teaching Reading Comprehension at tenth grade students of MAN 4 Kediri. Quantitative post-test only control group design used the approach to design this research. The subject of the research is tenth grade student of MAN 4 Kediri. The subject were X MIA 1 class as experimental class which consist of 36 students and X MIA 2 class as control class which consist of 36 students. To get data, the researcher use test. The data analyzed by using t- test can be found with SPSS 16.0. The mean score of students’ reading comprehension in experimental class belongs to very good category. Its score 83.19. Meanwhile, the mean score in control class belongs to good category with mean score 77.22. The result of statistical computation value of the independent sample t-test is 3.050 with t table within degree of freedom (df) 70 at 5% significant level is 2.647. It can be seen that t-statistic value is higher than t-table. Because there is significant increase in student’s reading comprehension after doing treatment, it can be said that number head together in reading comprehension of the tenth grade students of MAN 4 Kediri in academic year 2018/2019 is effective. So the alternative hypothesis was accepted.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Sam Roberto Andre Hasian Lumbantobing ◽  
Hilman Pardede ◽  
Herman Herman

This research is a study of improving students’ ability in reading comprehension. The aim was to find out whether the use of Herringbone technique would bring a significant difference in teaching reading comprehension through Recount text, compared with the result before the students being treated. The study was conducted in the tenth grade students of SMA N 4 Pematangsiantar. The research method used was the experimental design, where the Experimental group was the PMIA 3 class, and the PMIA 2 class as the control class. Both of the classes had 34 students in each of it. The data were obtained through pre-test, treatment and post test. The pre-test was held to know the students’ basic ability or score before treatment was given. Meanwhile, the post test was held to know the students’ achievement and significant effect after the students were taught using Herringbone technique. Finding of the research showed that both groups had a significant improvement in their reading ability after being treated and passed the KKM. The Control group, which the pre-test score was 60, made an improvement shown in their post-test score in amount of 70,44. The experimental group, the group which the researcher treated the Herringbone technique to them, had a higher improvement than the control group. The average score of pre-test in this group was about 54,41 where then being improved up to 78,97. The score of t-test (3,981) was higher than t-table (1,668) at the level of significance 5% for two tailed test, so Null Hypothesis is rejected and Alternative Hypothesis is accepted.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
I G. N. Pt. Adi Laksana Putra

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Student Facilitator and Explaining (SFAE) technique based on Tri Hita Karana towards students’ science achievement in fifth grade of Buleleng district primary schools cluster XV academic year 2017/2018. This study was an experimental study utilizing non-equivalent post-test only control group design. The population of this study was fifth graders of Buleleng district primary schools cluster XV and the sample of this study was fifth graders of SD Negeri 2 Kalibukbuk as the experimental group and fifth graders of SD Negeri 3 Anturan as the control group. The data collection was utilizing instrument in the form objective test. Then, the obtained data was analysis using both descriptive and inferential (t-test) statistical analysis. The result showed that there was a difference of mean score between both groups. The mean score for experimental group was 23,12 while the mean score for control group was 16,21. Furthermore, hypothesis testing showed that tobs>tcv (tobs=6,821 > tcv=1,99962). Based on the result of the study, it can be concluded that there was a significant difference on students’ science achievement between the students taught using Student Facilitator and Explaining (SFAE) technique based on Tri Hita Karana and the students taught without Student Facilitator and Explaining (SFAE) technique based on Tri Hita Karana at fifth graders of Buleleng district primary schools cluster XV academic year 2017/2018


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-171
Author(s):  
Rudi Suherman ◽  
Ana Yusyfiana

This research was intended to investigate the effect of a culture-based approach in improving students’ reading comprehension on spoof text. For that purpose, a true experimental study was applied to the eleventh-grade students of SMAN 1 Soreang. The sample of this study was 88 students from that school. These students were divided equally into the control and experimental group. The experimental group was given the Culture-Based Approach (CBA) as the treatment in comprehending the text.  The students’ scores of pre-test and post-test from both groups were statistically analyzed and compared by the T-test. The findings could be summarized that generally, students from the experimental group gained better achievement than from the control group on their post-test scores. The data analysis also showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of the pre-test (53.45) and the post-test (58.39.). Furthermore, the result of the t-test (5.707) was relatively higher than the t- table (2.018) for a 0.5 percent level of significance. It indicated that the students’ achievement was significantly improved after the treatment of using a Culture-Based Approach. Thus, it is recommended that a Culture-Based Approach should be considered as an alternative choice for English teachers in teaching spoof text.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamad H. Alsowat

<p><em>This study aimed at investigating the effect of Augmented Reality (AR) on college-level EFL students’ reading comprehension, self-efficacy, autonomy and attitudes. It also examined the relationships between self-efficacy, autonomy and attitudes. The sample consisted of (59) male students: an experimental group (n=30) and a control group (n=29), studying English for Academic Purposes at Taif University, Saudi Arabia. The study employed the quasi-experimental approach using a pre-post, nonequivalent control group design. A reading comprehension test, a self-efficacy scale, an autonomy scale and a questionnaire for attitudes were designed to gather the data. The findings indicated that there was a significant difference between the two groups in the reading comprehension post-test in favor of the experimental group. Also, there was a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the pre and post administration of the self-efficacy scale in favor of the post administration. Besides, there was a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the pre and post administration of the autonomy scale in favor of the post administration. The results of one-sample T Test showed that all attitudes items were statistically significant and the grand mean score was statistically significant which indicated that students had positive attitudes towards using Augmented Reality in language learning. Finally, positive significant relationships between students’ self-efficacy, autonomy and attitudes were found.</em></p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurbaiti Rindang Utami ◽  
Yayuk Andayani ◽  
Muntari Muntari

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh model pembelajaran berbasis proyek terhadap prestasi belajar kimia siswa kelas XI IPA SMAN 1 Narmada Tahun Pelajaran 2013/2014. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian eksperimen semu dengan rancangan post test only control group design. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan teknik cluster random sampling karena anggota populasi sudah homogen berdasarkan data nilai ujian semester ganjil siswa kelas XI IPA. Kelas XI IPA 1 sebagai kelas eksperimen menggunakan model pembelajaran berbasis proyek dan kelas XI IPA 3 sebagai kelas kontrol menggunakan model pembelajaran konvensional. Post test digunakan sebagai instrumen utama penelitian, selain itu portofolio juga digunakan sebagai instrumen kedua penelitian ini. Hasil uji beda (uji-t) post test dengan taraf signifikan 5% menunjukkan thitung (4,105) > ttabel (2,000) sehingga H0 ditolak. Uji-t dilakukan juga pada hasil portofolio yang menunjukkan thitung (2,89) > ttabel (2,000). Berdasarkan kedua hasil tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa model pembelajaran berbasis proyek memberikan pengaruh yang lebih baik dibandingkan dengan model konvensional terhadap prestasi belajar kimia siswa kelas XI IPA SMAN 1 Narmada Tahun Pelajaran 2013/2014.Kata Kunci: Model pembelajaran berbasis proyek, prestasi belajar kimia Abstract: The objective of the research was to know the effect of Project-Based Learning towards the student’s chemistry learning achievement class XI IPA of SMAN 1 Narmada in 2013/2014 academic year. This research used a quasi-experimental research design with the design of post-test only control group design. Sampling was done by cluster random sampling technique because members of populations have homogeneous based on data value semester exams of class XI science students. Class XI IPA 1 as experimental group was threated by project-based learning model and class XI IPA 3 as control group was threated by conventional learning models. Post test is used as an basic instrument. In addition, the portofolio is as a second instrument of this research.. The results of post-test hypothesis test using a different test (t-test) with a significance level of 5% showed tacc (4.105)> ttable (2.000) so that H0 is rejected. Hypothesis testing is also performed on the results of portfolio show tacc (2.89)> ttable (2.000). Based on these results, we can conclude that project-based learning model provides give a better effect than the conventional models of the student’s chemistrylearning achievement class XI IPA of SMAN 1 Narmada in 2013/2014 academic year.Keywords:     project-based learning model, the students’s chemistry achievement learning


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 142 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W. S. Mahayanti ◽  
L.P. Artini ◽  
I. A. Nur Jannah

This study was aimed at investigating whether or not there was a significant effect of the implementation of Big Book as media on reading comprehension achievement of the fifth grade students. This study was conducted in SD Laboratorium Undiksha Singaraja in the form of an experimental research with post-Test only Control Group Design. The population was the fifth grade in which two classes were selected as the sample of the study. Then, the samples were decided as the experimental group and control group by using lottery. The experimental group was taught by using Big Book as media and the control group was taught by using conventional media. The data were analyzed by using t-test through SPSS 17.0. The result of the data analysis showed that students in experimental group performed better than the students in the control group. It was proven by the result of the descriptive statistics that showed the mean score of the experimental group was 85.51 while the mean score of the control group was 75.56. The result of the t-test also showed that the value of Sig (2-tailed) 0.000 was less than 0.05. It can be concluded that there was a significant difference of reading comprehension achievement between students treated with big book as media and those treated using conventional media at fifth grade of elementary school in SD Laboratorium Undiksha Singaraja.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Sri Yanti

This research is designed to investigate the use of electronic dictionary in improving students� vocabulary mastery. This quantitative research applied quasi-experimental with nonequivalent control group design by involving 65 second-grader of SMAN 1 Garawangi. There were two instruments used in this research, namely test, consisted of pretest and posttest, and questionnaire. As result, the findings showed that the mean score of experimental class on pretest was 53, and the mean score of experimental class achieved 86 after the treatment. The improvement of students� vocabulary mastery can also be seen from the level of significance (two-tailed) in paired t-test that was less than the alpha (0.000<0.05). It indicated that the null hypothesis was rejected and Ha was accepted which means that there was significant difference of means between pre-test and post-test of experimental class. Besides, most students endorsed ten items of questionnaire involving affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects which means that most students in experimental class agreed that electronic dictionary can help them in improving their vocabulary mastery. Finally, the researcher concludes that the use of electronic dictionary can improve students� vocabulary mastery.Keywords: electronic dictionary, vocabulary mastery, quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group


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