Difference In Reading Comprehension Achievement Research Articles

The Influence of Metacognitive Strategy and Students’ Reading Interest Toward Reading Comprehension Achievement of The Tenth-Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Pagar Alam

This paper discusses the concept of Metacognitive Strategy and its impact on students' reading interest in teaching reading comprehension. The research aims to determine if there is a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between students taught using the Metacognitive Strategy and those taught with the conventional approach, as well as to explore the interaction effect of these strategies and students' reading interest. An experimental method was employed, focusing on tenth-grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Pagar Alam during the 2012/2013 academic year, with a sample of 60 students selected through a two-stage process. Data were collected using a questionnaire to assess reading interest and tests to measure reading comprehension achievement. Analysis involved a factorial design, employing t-tests and two-way ANOVA, confirming normality and homogeneity of data. Results indicated significant findings: (1) A significant difference in reading achievement for high-interest students, with a p-output of 0.001, lower than 0.05, accepting H1; (2) For low-interest students, the p-output was 0.022, also lower than 0.05, accepting H2; (3) However, the two-way ANOVA showed a significant value of 0.676 for the techniques used, higher than 0.05, leading to the rejection of H3. This indicates that the Metacognitive Strategy is effective in teaching reading comprehension to students regardless of their interest levels.

THE EFFECTS OF THINK-ALOUD STRATEGY ON EFL YOUNG LEARNERS’ READING SKILL PRACTICE

Think-aloud is described as a strategy in which students verbalize their thoughts while they read. This strategy is used to help students monitor their own thinking and comprehend the text. This current study aimed to examine the effects of the think-aloud strategy on EFL young learners’ reading skill practice and identify their attitudes towards the think-aloud strategy used by the teacher in teaching at a foreign language center in Can Tho city (Southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region). This study was experimental research using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative approach was used to investigate the effects of the think-aloud strategy on young learners’ reading skill practice while the qualitative data was collected to understand the young learners’ attitudes towards the use of the think-aloud strategy in teaching and learning reading skills. Pre-test, post-test, and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. The study was conducted with one group of participants. The participants included 25 students who were at the age of 10-12 years old. The results from the pre-test and post-test showed that there was a significant difference in the students‘ reading comprehension performance after the intervention. Thus, the think-aloud strategy has a great impact on the improvement of students’ reading comprehension. Besides, there was no difference in reading comprehension achievement between males and females before and after the treatment. Especially, the results from the semi-structured interview revealed that all students had positive attitudes towards the think-aloud strategy.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0981/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

THE REALIZATION OF SEMANTIC MAPPING STRATEGY IN READING OF ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS IN SMK BARDAN WASALAMAN BATANG

The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of Semantic Mapping strategies in teaching reading comprehension in second grade students of SMK Bardan Wasalaman Batang. The research question is whether Semantic Mapping strategies are effective in Reading of English for Foreign language Class. Forty-two eleventh grade of in SMK Bardan Wasalaman Batang was chosen as a subject and divided equally into two groups; one group is the experimental group and the other is the control group. There are several procedures carried out in data collection to answer research questions; first, a pre-test is given before the experiment is performed to ascertain whether there are no significant differences in English proficiency in the two subject groups of lesson. Subjects are required to complete a reading comprehension test consisting of forty-five multiple-choice tests within ninety minutes. Second, after the experiment, a post-test was carried out using the same test for the pre-test. Finally, the t-test was used to determine whether there were significant differences in the achievement of reading comprehension between the two groups. The data showed that there were significant differences in the achievement of reading comprehension between the experimental groups - treated with Semantic Mapping strategies and the control group taught with KWL strategy. It means that the Semantic Mapping Strategy is more effective than KWL Strategy. The data indicate that there is significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the experimental group - treated and Semantic Mapping strategy, and the control group taught with KWL strategy. It means that Semantic Mapping Strategy is more effective than KWL Strategy.

Using Cooperative Discussion Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q) Strategy toward Narrative Reading to the Tenth Grade Students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang who are taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy and those who are not, and to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement before and after the treatments on students’ narrative reading comprehension achievement taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy at the tenth grade of MA Al-Fatah Palembang. The sample was 70 students. In collecting the data, the test was given twice to experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS 20 program. The finding showed that the p-output (sig.(2-tailed)) was 0.004 lower than 0.05 and the t-value 2.990 was higher than t-table 1.667. Therefore it could be stated that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that narrative reading comprehension by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy had a significant improvement on the students’ reading comprehension achievement.

Using Predict-O-Gram Strategy to Improve Student’s Ability in Reading Comprehension

Abstract: The objective of the study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Predict-O-Gram Strategy and that of those who were not. The method used in this study was a quasi-experimental method. The sample of the study was 54 students, which divided into two groups, namely experimental group (class VIII.B) and a control group (class VIII.C), each of them consisted of 27 students. To collect the data the written test was used in the form of multiple-choice. Before giving the test, the test was tried out to non sample students of the eighth grade students of MTs Subulussalam Kayuagung class VIII. A in order to know whether or not the test was valid and reliable for sample not. The data obtained were analyzed by t-test and the calculation was done with SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) version 20. Based on the result of independent sample t-test, It found that there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Predict-O-Gram Strategy and that of those who were not.
 
 Keywords: predict-o-gram strategy, reading comprehension

Improving students’ reading comprehension achievement through question generation strategy

This study was aimed to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between students who were taught by using the Question Generation strategy and that of those who were not. In conducting the study, question generation strategy was used in the experimental group, but the control group did not get any treatment. Sixty students were assigned in two groups, with 30 students in the experimental group and the other 30 students in the control group. Reading comprehension tests was used in collecting the data. Data were analyzed using a t-test. The findings of the study showed that the question generation strategy could improve students’ reading achievement better than and those who were not. Therefore, the question generation strategy was helpful to aid students to understand the reading text

THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY STRATEGY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

Introduction: The purpose of the study is to find out the improvement of student’ reading comprehension through Directed Reading Thinking Activity Strategy. This study was designed to find out the answer to the following question: Is there any significant difference in reading comprehension achievement before and after giving DRTA treatment?. Method: The instrument used for this study is reading comprehension test, which contained 30 question and administreted to SMP Advent II Bandung.The respondent of this study is the 2nd year students of Junior High School consisted of 26 students. Result: The result of this study showed that class improved in their reading comprehension . In addition, There is a significant use through Directed Reading Thinking Activity Strategy.

CORRELATION BETWEEN CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Conscientiousness is one of the personality traits that defined as an individual tendency to be organized, thorough, controlled, decisive and dependable. This study was done to find out (1) the correlation between conscientiousness and reading comprehension achievement, (2) the significant difference in conscientiousness and reading comprehension achievement between male and female students, (3) the significant difference in conscientiousness and reading comprehension achievement between social science students and natural science students, and (4) the contribution of conscientiousness to reading comprehension achievement. The population of the study was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 20 Palembang. One hundred students were purposively taken as sample on the basis of equal numbers of gender and major. To collect the data, reading comprehension achievement test and conscientiousness questionnaire were distributed to students and analyzed statistically. The findings showed conscientiousness and reading comprehension achievement significantly correlated (p value = 0.460) and the contribution of conscientiousness to reading comprehension achievement was 20.4%. The significant difference in reading comprehension achievement in gender and major was found; female and natural science students were better. The different result was obtained in conscientiousness. It implied that students tend to had similar perception toward conscientiousness regardless their gender and major.

Comparative Study Between Using Cooperative Learning Model Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) and Direct Instructional Method (DI) to Teach Students’ Reading Comprehension

<p>Mastering reading comprehension is a must for language learners. Without mastering reading comprehension students aren’t able to grasp the message on their written form of learning material. Yet, reading comprehension oftenly considered to be difficult by students. This may caused by teacher’s method of teaching that doesn’t effective. This article compare between the use of Cooperative Learning method model Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) and Direct Instructional Method (DI) to teach studentsz reading comprehension. Here describe there is significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students taught using TGT and those taught using DI of the eighth grade students of one state junior high school in Grogol, and whether TGT is more effective than DI to teach reading comprehension. The method used in this study is experimental method (comparative study). The population of the research is all the eighth grade students. The sample was taken by using cluster random sampling. Two groups of student were taken, VIII-B as experimental group and VIII-C as control group. The instrument to collect data is test. The data were analyzed using t-test formula. The computation showed that t-observation (t<sub>o</sub>) is 3.32 consulting t-table <sub>(78,</sub> <sub>0.05)</sub> = 1.96, therefore the t<sub>o</sub> is higher than t<sub>t</sub>. It is concluded that there’s significant difference between experimental and control group. Besides, the mean of the group of students taught using TGT is 62.62, while that of those taught using DI is 59.46, meaning that TGT gives better achievement than DI. Thus, TGT is more effective than DI to teach reading comprehension.</p>

An Experimental Study on Clustering Technique Employed by The Extrovert and Introvert Learners in Reading Comprehension at Fishery Faculty of PGRI University Palembang

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to investigate An Experimental Study on Clustering Technique Employed by The Extrovert and Introvert Learners in Reading Comprehension at Fishery Faculty of PGRI University Palembang. This study applied experimental method with factorial design. There were 40 students as the population. From 40 students, 30 students were taken as the samples of this research by using two stage random sampling. The statistical analyses used were Independence t-test and Two-way ANOVA. The distribution of both experimental and control group score were normal, since the significant value was higher than 0.05. The data of Clustering Technique and Conventional Technique were homogeneous since the result of homogeneity of variance testing indicated that the significant value of all the data was higher than the significant of p-output (0.05).Furthermore, it was found that (1) there is any significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between extrovert and Introvert students who are taught byusingclustering technique. (2) there is any significant difference in readingcomprehension achievement betweenextrovert and introvertstudents who are taught by using conventional technique. (3) there is any significant difference in reading comprehensionachievementbetween extrovert and introvertstudents who are taught byclustering technique andthosewho are taught byusing conventional technique. (4) there was no any significant interaction effectof clustering technique and extrovert and introvert students onreadingcomprehension achievement. the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected and null hypothesis (Ho) was accepted. Key Word: Clustering Technique, Extrovert and Introvert, Reading Comprehension

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GUIDED DISCOVERY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

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.

The Influence of Reading Comprehension Achievement at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Rawa Bening By Using DRTA and KWL Strategies

There are three objectives of this study : (1) to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement of the students between before and after they were taught using DRTA strategy, (2) to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement of the students between before and after they were taught using KWL strategy, and (3) to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught using DRTA strategy and those KWL strategy. The 90 samples out of 120 students from the eighth grade students were chosen by means purposive sampling technique. It used quasi-experimental method. The data was analyzed using t-test. The result showed there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between before and after taught using DRTA strategy, there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between before and after taught using KWL strategy, and there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught using DRTA strategy and KWL strategy. Key Words: DRTA Strategy; KWL Strategy; Reading Comprehension Achievement.

The Effectiveness Of K-W-L Technique To Increase Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement Through Reading Descriptive Text For Grade 8 of SMP Negeri 1 Cisarua

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between those who are taught using the K-W-L (Know-Want to know-Learn) technique and those who are taught using the Conventional technique. In this study, the researcher used quantitative research. The participants of this study were students at SMP Negeri 1 Cisarua, Bandung. This study was conducted in ten meetings. This research was conducted in four steps: Pilot test, Pre-test, treatment (K-W-L technique) and post-test. After analyzing the data from the result of pre-test and post-test score it showed that there is significant difference in reading comprehension between those who are taught using K-W-L technique and those who are taught using conventional technique. Therefore, it can be concluded that the K-W-L technique as a teaching material has a positive impact in reading comprehension achievement.Key Word: K-W-L technique, Effectiveness, and Reading Comprehension.