Abstract
The purpose of the quantitative study with a factorial experimental approach was to examine the significant increase and difference of students’ achievement in reading literacy and vocabulary mastery after being taught through the SQ3R with authentic texts and simplified texts at one English Study Program Public University in Jambi, Indonesia. The sample of this study was 56 six semester student teachers at one public university in Jambi. To collect the data, pre-test and post-test techniques were used. The result of paired sample t-test showed that there was a significant progress in students’ achievement of reading literacy and vocabulary mastery of both experimental groups. Moreover, the result of independent sample t-test analysis showed that there was no significant difference in students’ achievement of reading literacy and vocabulary mastery between both experimental groups as well as level of achievement. The factorial analysis showed that there was an interaction between the kind of texts and students’ level of achievement both high and low achievers. Implications of findings and suggestions are discussed
Highlights
Reading is a way of getting knowledge and is one of the literacy skills which a person needs to understand
The students were given the treatment in the form of intervention using the SQ3R with authentic texts for one group whereas the other group was taught using the SQ3R with simplified texts
The findings of this study indicated that the Shapiro-Wilk test of reading literacy, p-value of reading literacy pre-test in experimental group 1 was .365 and p-value of post-test was .539 whereas p-value of reading literacy pre-test in experimental group 2 was .613 and p-value of post-test was
Summary
Reading is a way of getting knowledge and is one of the literacy skills which a person needs to understand. Reading literacy is the capability to grasp the gist of a text. It has a very close relationship with writing literacy, that is, the ability of how to express our thoughts as well as ideas on paper. At the same time, reading literacy is developed through good reading materials. 3) stated, “Literacy comprises the four basic English skills namely; reading, listening, speaking and writing”. Those four literacy skills play an important role to make the students better at communicating effectively. The concept of literacy is broad covering media literacy, visual literacy, and functional literacy
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