Author (Penulis)

RETNO KUSUMANING AYU
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0160

Abstract

ABSTRACT RETNO KUSUMANING AYU, The Effect of Discovery Learning Strategy To Seventh Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMPN 2 Gurah In Academic Year 2017/2018, Skripsi , English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri, 2018. Reading is one important activity which cannot be released from our life to search some information or knowledge from printed text. Reading skill became very important because their success of their study depends in the greater part of their ability to read. The goal of reading is comprehension which the students should be able to construct the meaning of a reading passage and their knowledge fluently. However it is difficult of the students. the students problems are their interesting, not understand the meaning, difficulties words. The difficulties reading are influence by several factor such as teacher methods and the students’ comprehension in reading. To solve this problem of research the writer used discovery learning method to be applied in teaching reading comprehension. The purpose of research were to find out effect of discovery learning in reading comprehension and to describe the students’ response when discovery learning is applied in teaching reading comprehension to seventh grade students in SMPN 2 Gurah. This research used quantitative research with subject is seventh grade students VII-G class of SMPN 2 Gurah. It consist of 33 students. The research conducted on 21st Nopember 28th Nopember 2017. Technique of this research is experimental research. This research conducted pre-and post test The result of data analysis showed that the average score of students’ pre-test was 57,27 while the post-test score was 70,00. The interval score was 12,72. Based on the t-test of significance, the result of this research shows that t-score is 7,762 at degree of freedom 32 and t-table is 2,750 at the level of significance 1% and 2,042 at the level of significance 5%. It means that t-score (7,762) > t-table at the level of significance 1% (2,750) and t-score (7,762) < t-table at the level of significant 5% (2,042). The data shows that t-score is higher than t-table in significance 1% and in significance of 5%. Therefore, the researcher concludes that the discovery learning is an appropriate method in teaching reading comprehension because it can develop the students’ ability in reading comprehension and help them to have positive attitudes during teaching learning process. In this case the writer would like to give some suggestion, for the teacher should use teaching technique in teaching reading to promote the students to be active learning in the text. For the school as there is representative library, it is useful to fulfill the students’ need of reading materials. And also for other researcher, to applied this technique to conduct the research with the similar variable. KEYWORD : Reading, Reading Comprehension,Discovery Learning

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PUBLISHED

2018-02-22

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

Vol. 02 No. 08 Tahun 2018

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