scholarly journals EFFECTS OF STORY READING ON IMPROVING EFL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND CRITICAL THINKING

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
T Test ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students

The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of story Reading on improving Reading comprehension and critical thinking of EFL students at Kandahar University. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with reading comprehension and critical thinking pre and Post-tests. Total 27 Afghan EFL students were selected based on their performance on Placement test. The participants’ experimental groups listened to their teacher reading a story aloud. In order to find the improvement and different between these variables is significant the Paired Sample T-Test was administrated and the result indicates that there is significant improvement in post-tests in areas of reading comprehension and critical thinking in story Reading. However, there is more improvement in critical thinking aspect through story reading.

scholarly journals Effects of Storytelling on Improving EFL Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Javed Sahibzada ◽  
Yar Mohammad Bahrami Ahmadzai ◽  
Azadkhan Niaz ◽  
Susan Hussein Laftah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
T Test ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this study is to find the effects of storytelling (ST) on improving critical thinking and reading comprehension of EFL students at Kandahar University. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with critical thinking and reading comprehension pre and posttests. Total 27 Afghan EFL students were selected based on their performance on Placement test.  The participants of experimental group listened to their teacher telling the story. In order to find the improvement and different between these variables is significant the Paired Sample T-Test was administrated and the result indicates that there is significant improvement in post-tests in areas of reading comprehension and critical thinking in group of storytelling. However, improvement is higher in reading comprehension section than critical thinking. 

scholarly journals ENHANCING STUDENTS READING ABILITY THROUGH INQUIRY BASED LEARNING TO EFL STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Farnia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
T Test ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students

IBT techniques is series of activities that involved maximally throughout the student's ability to search and investigate in a systematic, critical, logical, analytical, so that they can formulate their own discoveries with confidence the search of knowledge and understanding to satisfy curiosity. IBT technique is also supposed to the teachers be creative to set situations. This method used was quasi experimental design. The purposive sampling technique was used on this study. The data were collected by reading test. The collected data was analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. The results showed that the students reading ability was improved and there was a significant difference between the students who were taught by using IBT and those who were not. With IBT technique encouraged students to take the initiative to have question the phenomenon, to conduct field observations, to analyze the data, and to draw conclusions. Thus, it is to integrate students and synergize various skills of language and different methods.

scholarly journals The effects of teaching critical thinking on students’ argumentative essay

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
A’am Rifaldi Khunaifi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Education ◽  
T Test ◽  
Test Calculation ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Sample Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental

<p>This study is directed to find out whether teaching critical thinking affects the writing ability of argumentative essay. This research employed quasi experimental design as it was intended to measure the effects of the strategy on the students’ ability in writing argumentative essay. The samples of the study were the students of class A and B enrolled in the seventh semester of the English Education Department of State Islamic College of Palangka Raya. To collect the data needed, it was used test as the instrument; it was Academic Writing for IELTS Test. The data were processed and analyzed by using SPSS 19.0 statistic technique of independent t-test and paired-sample t-test, and the analized data were concluded. From the result of the test, the independent t-test calculation in posttest scores in both groups shows that the significance value is higher than level of significance (0.194 &gt; 0.05). It indicates that there is no significant difference between experimental and control groups. Moreover, the paired t-test calculation shows the result of paired sample test (0.000 &lt; 0.05) in which there is a significant difference between pretest and posttest scores in experimental group after having treatments.</p><p><strong></strong><em><br /></em></p>

scholarly journals The Impacts of Explicit and Implicit Instructions of English Connectors on EFL Students’ Reading Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Adjie Putra Pangestu ◽  
Jumatul Hidayah ◽  
Eka Apriani
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
T Test ◽  
English Department ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
And Control

There have been many studies on English grammar, but a dearth of studies has been conducted in the cross-sectional fields such as seeking how the field of grammar makes contributions to reading comprehension. Accordingly, the current study sought to find out the impacts of explicit and implicit instructions of English connectors on EFL students’ reading comprehension. 50 third semester students from an English department at a university in Bengkulu were incorporated as the samples. Adopting a quasi-experimental method, those 50 students were split into two classes, the so-called experimental and control classes. Students in the experimental class were taught English connectors explicitly, and those of the control class were taught English connectors implicitly. Before eight times of treatments in the form of the two ways of instructions, students of the two group were given a valid and reliable reading comprehension pre-test, and a similar construct of post-test was given after the eighth treatments ended. The data of the current study were analyzed by deploying paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. The present study revealed that explicit and implicit instructions of English connectors had positive impacts on EFL students’ reading comprehension. However, the explicit instruction of English connectors enhanced EFL students’ reading comprehension more significantly and more effectively. It is recommended that further studies be conducted to replicate the present study in different contexts for the sake of providing rich data to confirm the current study’s results. 

scholarly journals Teaching Narrative Reading by Using the Sub-text Strategy for Islamic Senior High School Students

Ta dib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Muhamad Holandyah ◽  
Nova Lingga Pitaloka ◽  
Wahyudiyanto Wahyudiyanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement before and after the treatment on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension scores at one Islamic senior high school in Palembang by using Subtext strategy and to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension scores between the students who were taught by using Subtext Strategy and those who were not. In this study, Quasi Experimental Design using pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design was used. There were 60 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 30 students from class XI IPS 2 as control group and class XI IPS 3 as experimental group. In collecting the data, reading comprehension test was used. The test was given twice to both experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hypotheses, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS program. The findings showed that the p-output from paired sample t-test (sig2-tailed) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 11.399 was higher than t-table with df=29 (2.0452).  The result of p-output from independent sample t-test was 0.001 which was lower than 0.05, and the t-value 3.465 was higher than t-table with df=58 (2.0017). It means that teaching reading narrative text by using Subtext strategy had significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension scores.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Herringbone Technique on Reading Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
T Test ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Quasi Experimental

The purpose of this research is to know the effect of the Herringbone technique on students' reading comprehension. A quasi-experimental was used in this research and the sample was 20 students of Guidance and conselling department . Test was used in this research to collect the data and  the data was analyzed by paired sample T-test by using SPSS. The result of this research, there was a significant effect of the herringbone to the students 'reading comprehension. It can be seen from the value of the t-test that the score was  higher  than t- table (11.212 > 2.086).  Therefore, it can be stated that the there is a significant effect of Heringbone technique on students’ reading comprehension.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS FOR READING COMPREHENSION ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Hendi Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
T Test ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Mean

The research is about to find out the students’ motivation through the authentic materials in experimental class and using textbook in control class, and to find out the significant result of students’ motivation between control and experimental class at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Sumber. The research method is quantitatif research with quasi experimental research design. The population of the research is all of MIPA students at the tenth grade and the sample are students of X MIPA 7 and X MIPA 8 that consist of 72 students. The techniques of collecting data are questionnaire and observation. Therefore, the research findings showed that students’ response in experimental class has a very good result after the treatment with the mean 86.42 from 69.18 and the Paired Sample T-test score is 0.00 means that there is a significant result after the treatment. However, students’ response in control class is not really showed the good result because it decreased from 69.76 to 68.87 with the Paired Sample T-test 0.429 means that there is no significant result after the treatment. In addition, the hypothesis test using Analysis of Covariances (ANCOVA) was pointed out that the significant was 0.00 means lower than 0.05. It is indicated that Ha is accepted, namely there is a significant result of students’ motivation from the use of authentic materials for reading comprehension.

THE EFFECT OF COMIC STRIPS ON SECONDARY EFL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITING ABILITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
M. Ridhwan ◽  
Muhammad Taufik Ihsan ◽  
Naskah Naskah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Test Group ◽  
T Test ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
And Control ◽  
Test Treatment

The purpose of this study was to investigate the significant effect of using comic strips strategy toward students’ reading comprehension and writing ability at MTsN 1 Pekanbaru. A Quasi-Experimental by Non-equivalent Pre-test and Post-test Group was applied as a designed for study. The sample was two classes (VIII 3 and VIII 4) consisting 20 students of treatment class, and 20 students of control class. The data were computed using SPPS 20.0 to analyze Independent sample t-test and Paired sample t-test. The finding of this study revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ reading comprehension by using comic strips strategy, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 77 and control class was 64.5, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -7.149, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. The data also revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ writing ability, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 79.6 and control class was 54.2, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -21.9, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. From those data it can be summarized that there is a significant effect of using comic strips strategy on students’ reading comprehension and writing ability.

TEACHING READING BY UTILIZING HOT POTATOES SOFTWARE TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Abdullah Farih
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
And Control

The objective of this study is to measure whether there is or not significant effect of teaching reading by utilizing Hot Potatoes software toward students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. The variables used were the teaching treatment of Hot Potatoes Software as the independent variable and the students’ reading comprehension of Descriptive Text as dependent variable. Then, the research designed was Quasi-experimental design and the presentation of data used was quantitative. The data were obtained from the eleventh grade, of which 28 students were taken as sample. The students are divided into two groups; experiment group consisted of 12 students and control group consists of 16 students. To get the data, the pre-test and post-test were applied and then analyzed using t-test formula. The researcher had concluded that there is Significant effect of Hot Potatoes Software toward the students’ reading comprehension achievement. The result showed that mean of students’ post-test was increased. It is proved by the t-test (8.54) which is higher than t-table (2.05) at level of significance 5%. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and it proved that Hot Potatoes Software had significant effect toward students’ reading comprehension of Descriptive Text

scholarly journals Applying Sight Translation as a Means to Enhance Reading Ability of Iranian EFL Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Moslem Fatollahi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Iranian Context ◽  
Reading Comprehension Ability

<p>Sight translation is the oral translation of a written text and is a mixture of translation and interpreting. Sight translation is a widely-used activity in translation training programs. Yet, this mode of translation has rarely been applied as a reading instruction technique in Iranian EFL instruction context in spite of the growing interest in using sight translation in language teaching and learning. This study aims at investigating the effect of sight translation on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian undergraduate EFL students. This is a quasi-experimental study involving treatment. To this end, four reading comprehension classes involving 70 learners were divided into two groups, with the experimental one receiving reading instruction with sight translation exercises and the control group receiving reading instruction without sight translation exercises. The posttest results revealed that the experimental group performing sight translation exercises in classroom outperformed the control group who had not engaged in sight translation. This study has implications for ELT instructors and learners in an Iranian context as they can use sight translation exercises as an effective technique for improving the reading comprehension ability of their learners.</p>

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