Abstract
As a non formal education students, PKBM (a Non-Formal Community Learning Center) Medaso Kolaka students tend to encounter some difficulties in reading such as low motivation, infrequent tutors (non-formal education teachers) coming, inappropriate teaching materials, etc. This research aimed to investigate the effects of picture story books on the students’ reading comprehension and to clarify students’ perception on the utilization of picture story books in teaching reading. The research was conducted at the PKBM Medaso Kolaka by applying the experimental design. There were 15 students randomly took as the sample and they were taking a Paket B. The sample was divided into two groups, namely experimental group and control groups. The data were collected by administering a test, namely pre-test that aimed to determine the prior students’ knowledge, and the post-test that was conducted in the end of the experiment. Questionnaires and interviews were also used to collect data of the students’ perception. Then, the data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment assisted by SPSS 14.0. The results revealed that picture story books were able to improve students’ reading as well as the students’ interest in reading. The result showed that the utilization of picture story books had effect on the students’ reading comprehension that revealed the value of 0.025 with higher scores found in the post-test.
Highlights
Language is an important part of human for communication
The researcher has done a preliminary research on August, 25th of 2009 at PKBM Medaso Kolaka and she found that the students of PKBM Medaso Kolaka tend to encounter some difficulties in reading such as low motivation, infrequent tutors' coming, inappropriate teaching materials, etc
To answer the research question as well as “to what extend does the use of picture story books in teaching English reading improve the reading performance for the first year of Paket B PKBM Medaso Kolaka? And what are the students’ perceptions towards the utilization of picture story books in reading class?”, the researcher applied an experimental research which intake two groups namely experimental group and control group
Summary
Language is an important part of human for communication. People are able to convey ideas, mind, opinion and feeling. There are a lot of people was mastering English as their foreign language. As reading a lot can enrich students vocabulary mastery, so the researcher thinks that to improve the lower English proficiency students, reading activity is one alternative solution. The researcher has done a preliminary research on August, 25th of 2009 at PKBM Medaso Kolaka and she found that the students of PKBM Medaso Kolaka tend to encounter some difficulties in reading such as low motivation, infrequent tutors' (non-formal education teacher) coming, inappropriate teaching materials, etc. The researcher was thought to treat the PKBM Medaso student with reading activities
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