scholarly journals The Use Of SQ3r Technique in Improving Students` Reading Comprehension

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Biringkanae
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

Reading is one of the basic English skills which should be mastered by the students. This study was intended to explore the use of SQ3R technique to improve students` reading comprehension and to find out the students` perception toward the use of SQ3R technique. The method in this study is mixed method with Quan-qual model. The quantitative method used quasi-experimental design with control and experimental group. The population in this research used purposive sampling technique with the number of sample are 24 students as respondent; 12 students in control group and 12 students in experimental group. This study was conducted at SMP Negeri 2 Saluputti from the eighth grade students in academic year 2016/2017. The instrument that the writer used are reading test and questionnaire and the data were analyzed through SPSS 20. The research findings shows that the implementation of SQ3R technique could improve the students’ reading comprehension ability especially the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Saluputti and the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Saluputti have good perception towards the use of SQ3R technique. This research shows the improvement in students` reading comprehension, for that reason, it is recommended that the English teacher apply certain effective technique in teaching reading to enhance student`s comprehension.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF CONTEXTUAL COMIC STRIP ON EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSIONAT SMP NEGERI 6 SINGARAJA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Sosiawan M.Y. ◽  
Marhaeni A.A.I.N. ◽  
Dewi N.L.P.E.S.D.
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

The main objective of this experimental study was to investigate whether there is a significant effect of contextual comic strips strategy on students reading comprehension. The study was conducted at the eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Singaraja. This Posttest-Only Control group design was applied. The population in this study was all of the students at SMP Negeri 6 Singaraja in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample in this study was 60 students consisting of 30 students from the VIII B1 class as the experimental group and 30 students from VIII B2 as the control group. The sample was selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected through a post-test in the form of multiple-choice test. The data were analyzed by using t-test in SPSS 16.0 program. The result of this study revealed that the mean score for the experimental group (73.17) is higher than the control group (69.00). The result of the t-test also showed that the value of Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.025. Since the value of Sig. (2-tailed) was below 0.05, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Based on the result, it can be concluded that there was a significant effect of Contextual Comic Strips on eighth-grade students’ reading comprehension at SMP Negeri 6 Singaraja in the academic year 2018/2019.

scholarly journals KEEFEKTIFAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PICTURE AND PICTURE DAN MODEL SUGESTI IMAJINASI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS PUISI PADA SISWA KELAS VIII SMP

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Qeis Karina Puspasari ◽  
Nas Haryati Setyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Group

Abstrak             Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keefektifan model Picture and Picture dan Model Sugesti Imajinasi dalam pembelajaran menulis puisi pada siswa kelas VIII SMP. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII SMP Negeri 5 Banjarnegara. Sampel penelitian ini yaitu siswa kelas VIII-D kelompok eksperimen 1 menggunakan model Picture and Picture dan VIII-C Kelompok eksperimen 2 menggunakan model Sugesti Imajinasi. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah quasi experimental design dengan bentuk nonequivalent control group design. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa model Picture and Picture lebih efektif dibandingkan dengan model Sugesti Imajinasi dalam pembelajaran menulis puisi pada siswa kelas VIII SMP.   Kata Kunci: model picture and picture, model sugesti imajinasi, teks puisi.   Abstract This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the Picture and Picture Model and Imagination Suggestion Model in learning to write poetry for eight-grade students of Junior High School. The population in this study were eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Banjarnegara. The samples of this study were the class VIII-D students as in the experimental group 1 using the Picture and Picture and VIII-C as in the experimental group 2 using the Imagination Suggestion model. The design used in this research is quasi experimental design with nonequivalent control group design. The results showed that the Picture and Picture model was more effective than the Imagination Suggestion model in learning to write poetry for the eighth-grade students of Junior High School.

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 Transition Action Details (Tad) Strategy in Teaching Writing Recount Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Siti Yulianti ◽  
Dwi Andriani ◽  
Zulaikah Zulaikah
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Experimental Group

This thesis is entitled "The Use of Transition Action Details Strategy in Teaching Writing Ability to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Rawabening". The objective of this study was to know whether or not there are any significant differences between the student who are taught by using the Transition Action Details Strategy and the student who is not taught by using it. This study used an experimental method, a quasi-experimental design. The population of this study was 47 students, and the sample was 47 students was taken by using purposive sampling, those were 24 students of the experimental group and 23 students of the control group. Based on the calculation by using an independent t-test by using SPSS 16, The writer found that t-obtained was higher than t-table (2.868>2.014) at the significant level a=0.05 in two-tailed testing. It meant that there were any significant differences between the experimental group and the control group. So, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypotheses (Ha) were accepted. It can be concluded that Transition Actions Details Strategy was significant in teaching writing ability to the eighth-grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Rawabening.

scholarly journals THE USE OF CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Farnia Sari ◽  
Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Clustering Technique ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

Writing process involves thinking and creative skills. To stimulate the students’ thoughts to express their ideas, clustering technique is effective brainstorming activity to help the students explore their ideas and write consistently. Thus, the objective of this study is to find out whether or not there is any significant difference between the students who were taught in writing descriptive paragraph through Clustering Technique and those who were not. The population of this study was all of the eighth grade students of SMP Srijaya Negara Palembang in academic year 2016/2017. There were three classes that consist of 113 students. The samples of this study were VIII C as a control group and VIII B as an experimental group. This study was conducted by using quasi experimental method with nonequivalent control group design. Then, the data were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. The result of independent sample t-test shows that the value of sig. (2-tailed) was 0.00 < 0.05 in the level of significant 0.05. While, the value of t-obtained was 5.213 higher than the critical value of t-table was 1.665 with degree of freedom 76. It can be concluded that the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It means that there was any significant difference between the students who were taught in writing descriptive paragraph through Clustering Technique and those who were not.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Systemic Approach in Teaching Adjectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Wiwik Alwiah ◽  
Mansur Akil
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of the use of the systemic approach to improve students’ understanding on adjectives materials related to the use, usage, synonym, antonym, spelling, pronunciation, collocation, meaning, and order. This research employed a quasi-experimental design. The populations were the third-semester students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar in academic year 2017/2018. The sample consisted of 40 students chosen from two classes by using purposive sampling technique then were divided into two groups, namely experimental and control group. The difference between experimental and control class was based on the teaching technique used during the treatment. While the experimental class was taught by using systemic approach, control class was taught by using the conventional method.The instruments of this research were adjective tests. The data was analyzed by using statistical analysis on SPSS for Windows 20.0 program. As per data, experimental group experienced improvement on their understanding on adjectives in terms of use, usage, meaning, spelling, pronunciation, synonym, antonym, collocation, and order indicated by the post-test mean score (77.1) which was significantly higher than that of the control class (59.7) and the gain of experimental group (31.2) which was higher than control group (17.4). Another supporting indicator is the t-test value which was higher than the t-table value (4.022 > 1.75). Furthermore, the researcher found that the element of adjective which experienced most significant increase on its mastery happened on the usage, while the lowest one was the collocation. The result of this research indicated that there was significant improvement between experimental and control class. It means that systemic approach that was applied in experimental group can improve the students’ mastery on adjectives material. Thus it was concluded that the systemic approach was effective to improve students’ on adjectives.

scholarly journals The impact of the cooperative learning strategy in improving the performance of eighth grade students in reading comprehension  and motivation of learning: أثر استراتيجية التعلم التعاوني في تحسين أداء طلبة الصف الثامن في فهم المقروء ودافعية التعلم

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwar Abdulkarim Mattar Alazzam
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

The study aimed at revealing the impact of the cooperative learning strategy in improving the performance of eighth grade students in reading comprehension and motivation of learning. The study was limited to the eighth grade students in the schools of Irbid governorate. In the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019 was followed the approach semi-experimental, In order to achieve the objective of the current study، Where the members of the sample of students from the eighth grade to two tests on the tool to measure the strategy of cooperative learning، one of them the prior and the other post, This type is depends on one group and considered as a case study, and by presence of prior measurement that provides some information on the performance of the study group before the experiment to be then - compared prior -measurement by post-measurement The study reached the following results: - There were statistically significant differences at the level of statistical significance (α≤0.05) In the average signs of students in the experimental group (who are studying using a cooperative learning strategy) and the average signs of students in the control group (who are studying using the normal method) in the test to solve the post-reading comprehension. - There were statistically significant differences at the level of statistical significance (α≤0.05) average student signs in the experimental group (Who are studying using a cooperative learning strategy) and average student signs in the control group (who study using the usual method) In the test of solving the comprehension of post-reading, when reviewing the arithmetic averages, the differences were found to be in favor of the experimental group; It reached the arithmetic average of the experimental group (17.43) while the arithmetic average of the control group (13.34) which indicates the high skill of solving reading comprehension among members of the experimental group compared to the control group, This indicates a positive impact of the use of collaborative learning in improving students' ability to solve reading comprehension In the light of the findings of the study, the researcher made several recommendations, including: Modern teaching strategies use modern teaching in the teaching of Arabic language because of their positive impact on positive learning. The need for the teachers of Arabic to know the modern teaching strategies to learn and teach different language skills.

scholarly journals Using Herringbone Technique in Teaching Reading Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 9 Parepare

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Sudarmanto Sudarmanto
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Test Use ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

This research discussed how the use herringbone technique  to improve the students’ ability in reading. This research used quasi experimental design that applied a pre-test and post-test design. The data was analyzed by using t-test. The population of this research was the eight year students of SMP Negeri 9 Parepare in academic year 2013/2014. There were two classes, a class for experimental class and a class for control class. It utilized cluster random sampling technique. The number of each class was 30 students. The instrument used in this research was reading test use of herringbone technique in learning reading. The result of this research was a significant difference between experimental group and control group. This indicates the mean score of the post-test of experimental group was 97 while that of the control group was 92. Moreover, the t-test value (7,24) was higher than t-table value (2.021). In other words, Hypothesis Alternative (H1) was accepted and Hypothesis Null (H0) was rejected. This means that Using Herringbone technique can improve the students’ reading comprehension by using herringbone technique.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF KNOW –WANT-LEARN (KWL) STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Husnaini Husnaini
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Control Group ◽  
P Value ◽  
Test Form ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The objectives of the research is to find out whether or not the use of KWL strategy is more effective than non KWL strategy in improving students’ interpretive comprehension. The research applied quasi experimental design in which the researcher used two groups namely experimental group with treatment by using KWL strategy and control group non KWL strategy. The subject of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Neg. 9 Palopo with the number of sample is 60 students, 30 students in experimental group and 30 students in control group. The researcher gave pretest before treatment to both groups and gave treatment to experimental group in six meetings and the last the researcher gave posttest. The data were collected through reading comprehension test in objective test form. The research result indicated that the use of KWL strategy is more effective than non KWL strategy in improving students’ interpretive comprehension. It was proven by the t-test of students’ posttest on this level of comprehension between experimental and control group where Probability value was lower than alpha (.000<0.05). It indicates that null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (H1) is accepted because P-value < α.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GUIDED DISCOVERY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Ida Zahara
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Guided Discovery ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Group

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was any significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using guided discovery and those who were taught by using conventional strategy to the eleventh grade students of MAN Arahan. This research was conducted through quasi-experimental method and used matching only pre-test post-test control group design. The population was 140 students of the eleventh grade of MAN Arahan in the academic year 2012/2013. Seventy students were chosen as the sample by using convenience sampling technique. The sample were assigned into two groups; the experimental group and the control group. Each group consisted of thirty five students. The data were obtained by reading comprehension test. A test was given both to the experimental group and control group before and after the treatment. The result of the test was analyzed by using matched t-test. The result of the study showed that there was any significant difference between eleventh grade students of MAN Arahan who were taught by using guided discovery and those who were taught by conventional strategy. The t-obtained was 4.52 at the significant level 0.05 in two tailed testing and df=21, the critical value of t-table is 2.080. Since the value of t-obtained was higher than t-table, then the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It can be stated that guided discovery is effective in teaching reading comprehension, and can be used as the alternative technique for teaching reading comprehension to the eleventh grade students of MAN Arahan.

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