Abstract
The fact that the English reading comprehension ability of the students of Islamic Religious Education of Tarbiyah Faculty of IAIN Bengkulu is still low. One of the causes of the problem is the ineffectiveness of the English teaching materials that have been used. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to produce ESP English reading comprehension instructional materials based on Islamic Educational Studies (IES) in accordance with the characteristics of Islamic Education Study Program students of Tarbiyah Faculty. The procedure in developing this instructional materials was adapted from Borg and Gall's research and development model. The research method used to investigate the effectiveness of the product is quasi-experimental method. The developed instructional material prototype was validated by material and media experts and also by English lecturers. According to experts of material and media, the product is very good with the percentage of ideality of 76% and 73.3%. According to the English lecturers’ validations are also categorized in good category with 77.5% percentage and the students' responses from the aspect of material, presentation and language assessment are classified as positive (good) category. There is a significant difference of reading comprehension achievement between experimental and control group students. It means that the students’ reading comprehension ability in the experimental group is higher than that of in the control group. It indicates that the product of this research is effective in improving the students’ English reading comprehension achievement.
Highlights
The main objective of teaching English I, II and III as General BasicCourse(MKDU) based on the course syllabus of Tarbiyah Faculty of IAIN Bengkulu is that students have the ability to comprehend English reading text, English vocabulary and English grammar
It means that the reading text in English textbookcurrently used by the students of IAIN of Bengkulu is still difficult to be comprehended by those students. 5.1.2 The Experts’ Responseson the quality of the model of Islamic Educational Studies Based Reading Comprehension Instructional Material through schema theory Approach developed by the researcher
Based on questionnair given to the expert of instructional material and the expert of media, it can be stated that both of those experts classified that the quality of the English reading comprehension instructional material developed by the researcher in good category (B) in which the percentage of ideals, respectively 78, 9 % and 80, %
Summary
Course(MKDU) based on the course syllabus of Tarbiyah Faculty of IAIN Bengkulu is that students have the ability to comprehend English reading text, English vocabulary and English grammar. It can be seen that any topic of discussion in all English instructional materials used as text books in teaching English I, II. Based on the observation and interview with the English lecturers of IAIN Bengkulu, the researcher found that teaching reading comprehension needs a lot of time because of the students’ difficulty in comprehending the English text and it is required a long time to comprehend the reading text while the time allocation for the discussion of other parts such as the discussion of grammar is not comparable to the time allocation for the reading comprehension discussion. The students’ difficulty in comrehending the English reading text could be observed when they wereasked to discuss the reading text they have read, they are mostly
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