Author (Penulis)

MAYA NUR AVIVA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0125

Abstract

The research is aimed to know the students’ reading comprehension before and after taught using authentic materials and to know whether or not the significant effect of using authentic materials to the students’ reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMA N 6 Kediri academic year 2014/2015. This study is experimental research. The population of the research was tenth grade students of SMA N 6 Kediri and the sample was X-3. The instrument which used in this research to collect the data is test. The test used to get the data was pre-test and post-test. The researcher gave pre-test and post-test before and after treatment. The result of the research shows that the mean of post-test (79,42) is higher than pre-test (62,16). It means that the students’ score is increasing. Furthermore, from calculation of t-table and t-test, it can be seen that t-test is 9,49, so that the t-table is 2,750 at the level of significance of 1% and 2,042 at the level of significance of 5%. From the result, it can be seen that t-test is higher than t-table. Therefore, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The researcher concludes that using authentic materials help students to increase their reading comprehension. Therefore it is suggested for the English teacher to use authentic materials in teaching reading because authentic materials can improve the students’ reading comprehension. Key words: Reading comprehension, Authentic Materials.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-08

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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