Reading Comprehension Of Descriptive Text Research Articles

The Influence of Previewing Predicting Strategy and Reading Motivation Toward Seventh Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension at Junior High School 10 of Palembang

This research Influence Previewing Predicting Strategy and Reading Motivation toward Students' Reading Comprehension. Quantitative research was carried out using Pre-test, Post-test, and Questionnaire. Data analysis used the Independent t-Test and Two-Ways Anova. The appropriate research material uses descriptive text. The population in the research was class VII students of Junior High School 10 Palembang. Meanwhile, the research sample was 70 students taken using a simple random sampling technique and divided into two groups, namely experimental and control, totaling thirty-five students who had high reading motivation and thirty-five students who had low reading motivation. Data collection uses an instrument in the form of a Multiple choice written test which has four alternative answers regarding students' reading abilities. The difficulty that students experience in learning English in class is not being able to understand English texts. Previewing Predicting Strategies need to be implemented in English classes to overcome students' difficulties in understanding English texts. The results of this study indicate that there is an interaction effect of the Previewing Predicting Strategy and Reading Motivation toward students' Reading Comprehension. This means that the null hypothesis (Ha) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ho) is accepted. The conclusion shows that Previewing Predicting Strategy and Reading Motivation show a significant role in increasing students' Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text.

Improving Students' Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text by Using Picture and Picture Technique at Junior High School

This study aims to improve students’ reading skills using Picture and Picture Technique. The study used a quasi-experimental design with two classes of pre-test and post-test designs as the research design. The sample consisted of 23 VIII A students and 23 VIII B students from SMP Negeri 2 Tlogowungu in the academic year 2022/2023. The students were divided into two groups: experimental and control. A t-test was used to analyze the collected data. The analysis found that t-test had a greater value that the t table (t count = 10.017, t table = 2.074 at the level significant 5%). The reading skills of both groups has improved, yet there is a significant difference between the two. The average post-test learning result of the experimental class is 79.65, while the average control class is 61.39. As a result, it is possible to conclude that using the Picture and Picture Technique can improve students’ reading skills.

KWL Strategy in Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This study focused on the KWL (Know-Want-Learned) strategy in students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. The objective of this study was to find out how the KWL strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. The design of the research was collaborative classroom action research. This research was conducted in two cycles; each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. By using the purposive sampling technique, the students in XD of a certain school in Semarang were selected as the sample of this study. The sample consisted of 30 students, 20 females and 10 males. The researchers used an observation sheet and a test to collect the data. The result showed that the KWL strategy was a way of teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text. Based on the test score, in cycle one, there were 50% students who achieved a minimum standard score, and in cycle two, 90% students achieved a minimum standard score. Thus, it could be concluded that the KWL strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text in the way of helping students to reach the minimum standard score. 

The Implementation of Snowball Throwing Strategy to Develop Students Ability in Reading Comprehension Social Function of Descriptive Text

This study aims to analyze the implementation of the Snowball Throwing strategy to develop students' ability in Reading Comprehension social function of descriptive text and to analyze students' responses the implementing of Snowball Throwing strategy to develop students' ability in Reading Comprehension of descriptive text. This study used a qualitative research method based on Classroom Action Research. The writer uses observation, field notes, and interviews as instruments. The participants in this study were 20 students of class X MIPA 3 MA ASSHIDDIQIYAH 3 Karawang. Research data in cycle 1 shows that the snowball-throwing strategy encourages students to understand reading descriptive texts. Students can perform better reading skills. This data is supported by interviews with student data showing positive responses in teaching reading using the snowball throwing strategy. In cycle 2, it showed increased student participation when conducting discussions; students seemed to enjoy and enjoy the teaching and learning process more. This data is supported by student responses which say that students like learning to do reading comprehension using the snowball-throwing strategy. Based on the study's results, the snowball-throwing strategy can encourage students to understand descriptive texts and make them actively participate in learning to read.

Applying Ice Cream Stick Media To Improve Grade Eight Students’ Ability In Reading Comprehension Of Descriptive Text At SMP Negeri 2 Pematang Siantar

The research aims to find out the effect of Ice Cream Stick Media to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension of descriptive text at SMP Negeri 2 Pematang Siantar. This research is quantitative research with quasi experimental research design, according to Ary, et al (2010:426) quantitative research is research that gathers numeric data through control procedures and analyses to answer predetermined questions or test hypothesis. The population is the grade eight of SMP Negeri 2 Pematang Siantar with a total of 344 students. The sample of this research is divided into two classes namely experimental class (VIII-7) consist of 30 students that use Ice Cream Stick Media and control class (VIII-6) consist of 30 students that use conventional strategy. The data collection instrument uses a multiple choice for pre-test and post-test. The research finds that the mean of post-test in experimental class is 73.1 and the mean of post-test in control class is 65. After that the researcher find that the ttest is higher than ttable (2.066 > 1.672) at the level significance is 5%. Based on the result finding Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that use Ice Cream Stick Media significantly affects the students’ ability at SMP Negeri 2 Pematang Siantar in reading comprehension of descriptive text.

The Implementation of THIEVES Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This study aimed to investigate whether the THIEVES strategy is effective or not in teaching reading comprehension of the descriptive text to students in the eighth grade at SMP Negeri 2 Ketungau Tengah, Sintang, Kalimantan Barat. It also investigates how effective it is. This research is a one-group pre-test and post-test design. In this research, the total population is 36 students, 18 from VIII A and 18 from VIII B. The researchers used random cluster sampling to select 18 students from class VIII A as the research sample. The researchers also collected and analyzed pre-test and post-test data using a t-test. The average pre-test score was 52.5, while the average post-test score was 62.5. The result of the t-test was 4,41, as shown by the data. Based on the above data analysis, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted because the t-test was higher than the t- table (4.41>1.740). Therefore, it indicated that the THIEVES strategy is effective in teaching reading comprehension. In addition, the effect size was 1,19, indicating a strong effect (>1.00). In conclusion, implementing the THIEVES strategy in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text to the eight grade students in the school is highly effective.

USING DECODING SKILLS FOR STUDENTS AUTOMATICITY IN READING COMPREHENSION AT SMA NEGERI 10 MAROS

This study aims to determine whether there is a significant effect of using decoding skills on students' reading comprehension in grade X students of SMA Negeri 10 Maros in the academic year 2021-2022. The researcher applied a quasi-experimental design. In this study, the population was class X SMA Negeri 10 Maros with a total of 104 students from 4 classes, and the sample in this study was selected using a purposive sampling technique with a total of 52 students and divided into two classes: X MIA 1 as a control class that was treated without using decoding skills, and X MIA 2 as an experimental class that was treated using decoding skills. In this study, the method used was a quantitative one. The research instrument in this study used two reading tests that were administered twice: at the first meeting in learning, a pre-test was carried out, and at the last meeting in learning, a post-test was carried out after using decoding skills. The data was analysed using the t-test. The result obtained from this study showed the heterogeneity of student performance in reading comprehension after applying decoding skills and without applying the strategy. The result showed a post-test score p-value of 0,001 with a meaning rate of 0,05 (5%). In other words, the p-value (0,001) sig a = 0,05 (5%) was provided. Therefore, the outcome of the effect size was 1,58. It provided that using decoding skills was effective to use a strong level on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text at the tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 10 Maros at a strong level.  

IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILL OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ AT MTS MUHAMMADIYAH PADANGPANJANG BY USING VISUALIZATION STRATEGY

IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILL OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ AT MTS MUHAMMADIYAH PADANGPANJANG BY USING VISUALIZATION STRATEGY

Cloze Procedure Technique on Students' Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This research investigated the effectiveness of the cloze procedure technique on students' reading comprehension of descriptive texts and to find out students’ responses toward the cloze procedure technique proposed by Taylor Wilson. This research used experimental research and used quantitative data. The instrument was a reading test (pre-test, post-test) and a questionnaire with 15 questions. This study's population was all class X students, with a sample of 54 students. This research lasted for one month. In this study, it can be seen from the pre-test and post-test results that have been calculated using the Independent Sample T-test through the SPSS program that the significance was 0.001, which means that the cloze procedure technique is effective. In the questionnaire results, the answers (yes) were chosen from as many as 293 and (no) as many as 112, which meant that most students at SMA Negeri 1 Lingga Utara responded positively about the cloze procedure technique.

An Analysis Students’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This study aims to explain the kind of difficult aspect in reading comprehension of the descriptive text faced by the students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sintoga. The method applied was descriptive quantitative, where the test and questionnaire were used as the instrument of the data. The sample of this study was VIII 2  chosen by using a simple random sampling technique. The test consisted of 30 question items divided into five types of questions: topic, main idea, word reference, location information, reference. Index difficulty and percentage were used to analyze the data. The result of the test showed that the majority of the eighth-grade students of SMPN 1 Sintoga found difficulties including answering topic 76%, main idea 72%, word reference 79%, location information 62%, and reference 80%. The kind of difficult aspect that encountered by the students of SMPN 1 Sintoga was finding main idea questions because the located main idea was difficult to find. As the result, kind of the difficult aspect faced by was in achieving the inference for reading comprehension test

OPTIMIZING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH E-LEARNING METHOD WITH WHATSAPP APPLICATION

This study aims to determine whether the E-learning method can be effective in optimizing students' reading comprehension of descriptive text with WhatsApp Application. This research was conducted in class X MIA 1 SMA Negeri 1 Buko in the academic year of 2020/2021. This study used one group-pretest-postest design of research with the data analysis were the frequency distribution of scores, mean and standard deviation. The questions from the pretest and posttest used the type of multiple choice questions with questions about the descriptive text. From this result, it was found that the mean of posttest Y = 7.8 with standard deviation Sy = 0.79 was higher than mean score at pretest X = 5.33 with standard deviation Sx = 0.89. It means that students' reading comprehension in descriptive text was higher after treatment at posttest than pretest. So the researcher concluded that the application of the E-learning method through WhatsApp application was effective in optimizing students' reading comprehension of descriptive text.
  
 Keywords: Optimizing, Descriptive Text, E-learning Method.
  

The Influence of Using Gist Strategy Towards Students’ Reading Comprehension at The Eighth Grade Junior High School

Online  learning chosen to be applied in almost all of schools in Indonesia, but now in condition many school in Indonesia has applied offline learning, this also applied to SMPN 2 Way Jepara East Lampung. GIST strategy to discover important information and idea in a text, and they could schematize descriptive texts in their own language to make them easier to understand. The aims this study was to determine students reading comprehension. This research was conducted with a quantitative method. This subject of this study were 63 students were sampled from 2 courses, VIII1 and VIII 2. The data was collected by using a multiple choice test as an instrument using pre-test and post-test. The independent t-test result was 0.020 with a significance of 0.05, according to the data analysis. The score of t-observed was higher than t-crucial (0.05) in the analysis, so H0 was rejected. It means that the GIST strategy has an influence on students' reading comprehension, especially in descriptive text. So, on there is an influence of employing the GIST strategy on students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text.

The Correlation between Students’ Reading Speed and Their Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text

The purpose of the research is to find out the correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension of descriptive text among the tenth-grade students of SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang in the academic year 2018/2019. The population of this research is the whole students in tenth grade at SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang. The writers chose 73 students as the sample of this research by using simple random sampling. In this research, the writers applied principles of the quantitative method with correlation form. The data was collected by using Reading Speed as variable X and Reading Comprehension as variable Y. The data is analyzed by using Pearson correlate and the result of it is 0.398. It means the result of r-xy (0.398) is higher than the r-table (0.329). So it can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension among tenth-grade students of SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang in academic years 2018/2019.

Analysis of Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text at SMK Negeri 2 Pematangsiantar

This research aims to find out how is the students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text. And what are their difficulties in Reading Comprehension.The method used in this research is a qualitative method, the research was conducted at SMK N2 PEMATANGSIANTAR with the samples were 35 students The researcher used five stories of descriptive text and fifty questions about the text,and there searcher used interview test too. The data collection was taken from the sudents’ score. The result of the research showed that there is 0 studentor 0% who was categorized exellent,there were 2 students or 5,7%who were categorized as very good,there were 7 studentsor 20% who were categorized as good, there were 14 students or 40 % who were categorized as fair, there were 8 students or 22,8 % who were categorized as poor, there were 4 students or 11,4 % who were categorized as very poor. And the researcher found the average by the score was 61,8 % . So, fromthe result the researcher can conclude that the students were still in the fair category

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENT STRATEGY TO TEACH READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO THE TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK PEMUDA KUTOREJO

Students could enrich their knowledge by reading books or from the other sources, whether in academic or non academic purposes. Reading activity helped to improve the students’ learning in class, especially in English learning. Moreover, besides writing, speaking, and listening, reading had become one of the essential skills. In improving the reading skill, students also had to improve their comprehension through reading some texts. This research was aimed to measure the effectiveness of using Teams Games Tournament strategy to teach reading comprehension in descriptive text to the tenth-grade students of SMK PEMUDA Kutorejo. The method which had applied in this research was quasi-experimental research. There were two classes, experimental and control classes which had been given the post-test. The average score in control class was 62,90 and experiment class was 76,83. After collecting the data, the researcher had to calculate and analyze them by using t-test formula. The result showed the t-value was 7,97, which is greater than t-table 1,67 at 0,05 levels of significance for df is 60. As a conclusion, Teams Games Tournament strategy was effective when it is implemented in reading comprehension through descriptive text in tenth-grade class. It could be an alternative way to teach reading descriptive text for the better strategy which has given by those teacher to find out the students comprehension in their reading skill.

The Correlation Between Students’ Self-Esteem and Their Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text at The Eleventh Grade of SMK Negeri 2 Kotabumi North Lampung Academic Year 2020/2021

Reading is one of four language skills in learning English, so that it is important for the students to learn reading. However, there are many students do not succeed in reading comprehension in descriptive text. Most of the students still face difficulties in reading comprehension. This happens because students' interest in reading is still low. One other problem is that many students lack self-esteem in learning. In this research aims to find out the correlation between students’ self-esteem and their reading comprehension in descriptive text at the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 2 Kotabumi Academic Year 2020/2021. Therefore, researcher carried out quantitative research to carry out further research. The population of this research all students of class XI and the researcher took 38 students as research subjects using proportional random sampling to take sample from the research. The instrument used by the researcher was in the form of multiple choice test and a questionnaire. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the product moment correlation with a significance level of 5%. The result of the hypothesis test was found that tobserved 3.137 > ttable 0.681, it showed that tobserved > ttable. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is correlation between students’ self-esteem and reading comprehension in descriptive text at the eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 2 Kotabumi Academic Year 2020/2021.

The Implementation of Scavenger Hunt Game in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

One of the English skills, namely reading, should be mastered by students so they can understand and comprehend the text they read. However, many students have lack of ability in reading especially in reading descriptive text. This research was aimed to find the effectiveness of implementing Scavenger Hunt game in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text. This research used the one group of pre-test and post-test design without control group with the research sample is tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Palangka Raya in the academic year 2021/2022 with the number of sample was 39 students. The data were obtained by using pre-test and post-test in multiple choice test items in relation to descriptive texts to measure the students’ reading comprehension. The data were analysed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank test since the data was not normally distributed. The result showed that there was significant effect of implementing Scavenger Hunt game (p<0.01) in teaching reading of descriptive text at the secondary school.

Integrating Mind-Mapping Collaborated with Think-Pair-Share to Teach Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text

The study aims at explaining the effectiveness of integrating Mind-Mapping collaborated with Think-Pair-Share to teach reading comprehension in descriptive text. It employed quantitative method using control-group of non-equivalent of quasi experimental research design. The study was conducted at eighth graders of a private junior high school in Batang, Indonesia. The research procedure used pretest, post-test, and documentation. Data analysis technique applied t-test formula SPSS 25 version program. The finding shows that experimental class taught by Mind-Mapping collaborated with Think-Pair-Share has higher achievement in posttest than control class taught by traditional method. The mean post-test of experimental class, 85.00 is higher than that of control class namely 49.50. The conclusion infers that Mind-Mapping collaborated with Think Pair Share is effective to teach reading in descriptive text. It can be recommended to English teachers for using this learning model in EFL classroom in order to create meaningful and joyful learning.

THE EFFECT OF PQRST (PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ, SUMMARY, AND TEST) STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION AT FIRST-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 SABAK AUH SIAK

This paper discusses an experimental research study regarding the effect of PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Summary, and Test) strategy on reading comprehension of the first-year students at SMAN 1 of Sabak Auh Siak. The study shows that 65% of the students have difficulties in comprehending the reading passage about a descriptive text. Based on the students’ reading indicators, it can be identified that they have difficulties in determining the main idea, locating references, understanding vocabulary, making inferences, and finding detailed information. This study uses a quantitative method on a true experimental design of two groups of first-year students using pre-test and post-test. The study involves 44 students, divided into two classes: the control class with 21 students and the experimental class with 23 students. The instrument is a test that consists of questions with multiple choices and four options (A/B/C/D). In order to analyze the data formula, statistical software namely SPSS version 23 is used to analyze the results of the study. The significant effect of PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Summary, and Test) strategy on reading comprehension at the first-year students of SMAN 1 Sabak Auh in Kabupaten Siak (2-tailed) is. 000 ˂ .005, which means that the H0 is rejected, while Ha is accepted. Thus, there is a significant effect on first-year students' reading comprehension in descriptive text between the students who are taught by applying the PQRST strategy and those who are not.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING TEACHER’S SCAFFOLDING

This classroom action research aimed to improve student’s reading comprehension of descriptive text by using the teacher’s scaffolding, especially in the aspect of vocabulary, finding the detailed information and main idea, determining pronoun reference, and using correct language features. This research was conducted in three cycles, with 32 students of the VII E class in SMP Negeri 03 Sungai Raya as the subject. The collected data were qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were gathered from the observation checklist and field notes, and the quantitative data were collected from the reading test. The findings showed that the use of teacher’s scaffolding in teaching reading comprehension text was encouraged students to determine the language features and pronoun reference, completing the detailed information and main idea and, increasing students’ vocabulary. The students became more active, enthusiastic, motivated and, confident in the reading comprehension class. The students enjoyed reading descriptive text and followed the learning activities. Based on the quantitative data, the students’ score of cycle 1 was 65,59, increased to 78,84 in the second cycle and 83 in the third cycle.