Author (Penulis)

ZAINU SIERLY AMALIA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0232

Abstract

Reading is one of four skills which has to be mastered in learning English as second or foreign language. However, in fact, students often face some difficulties in learning English especially in comprehending a text. The problems are about difficulty to find main idea, general information, meaning of vocabulary, and inference. Dealing with the problem, itis needed to use an appropriate technique in teaching learning process of reading that can assist them to solve those problems. The technique is problem based learning model. This research is aimed to find out the effect of problem based learning model to the students’ reading comprehension to the tenth grade students of SMK PGRI 2 Kediri. In order to get and analyze the data, this research uses quantitative research. It uses the form of number that was analyzed by using statistical formula. In this case, there are two means scores; the means scores are pre-test and post-test. Then the researcher compute t-score to know the effect of the problem based learning model to the students’ reading comprehension. Technique of this research is experimental research. It is a research to know the effect of a variable to the other variable. This research is conducted in SMK PGRI 2 Kediri on 17th and 21st November 2015. The subject is X AK 3 class. It consists of 43 female students. Based on the result of this study, it is found that problem based learning model has influence to the students’ reading comprehension. It is also supported by the result of the data which has been computed by the formula of t-test that the score of t-test (12,98) is higher than t – table in significant 1% (2,423). So, Null Hypothesis (Ho) of this research was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted. Finally, the writer concludes that there is very significant influence of problem based learning model to the students’ reading comprehension. This technique makes learning process become easier and more enjoyable so that the students can overcome their difficulties in reading. Besides, the students’ ability in comprehending the text becomes much better. The writer also suggests that the use of problem based learning model should not be neglected from learning English especially in reading. The teacher must be aware about the benefits of problem based learning model and try to apply this technique to improve their students’ reading comprehension. Kata Kunci : reading comprehension, problem based learning model

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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