THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HERRINGBONE IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION AT SMK N 2 KEDIRI
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SANDRA APRILIA PRATIWIUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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14.1.01.08.0058Abstract
Reading is one of the four language skills which are given in teaching English. Reading is very useful and important subject to learn, by reading students’ can enlarge their knowledge, vocabulary, and get the information from a text. In fact, there are many problems in reading, the students’ difficulties to understand reading material of the text, find out topic, main idea, general information, specific information of a text. The researcher proposes to use Herringbone. The aim of this research is to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension before and after being taught using Herringbone, and the last to find out any effect of Herringbone on students’ reading comprehension.This research used quantitative research and the research method was pre experimental design, namely the one-group pre-test post-test design. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students of SMKN 2 Kediri in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the research was class X TKJ-1 Axiooconsist of 30 students. This research was held in two meetings involved pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The researcher used test as the instrument to collect the data. After collecting the data, the next step was analyzing them by using SPSS version 23 to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension using herringbone.The result showed the students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught using herringbone on students’ reading comprehension. It was proven by the mean after being taught using herringbone (76,83) was higher than the mean score before being taught using herringbone (64,50). The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table (12,577 > 2,045) it means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. From the result above, there was any significant effect of herringbone on students’ reading comprehension than teaching reading comprehension without using herringbone. It can be concluded, this technique was recommended for the teacher to teach the students’ especially in reading comprehension. Reading is one of the four language skills which are given in teaching English. Reading is very useful and important subject to learn, by reading students’ can enlarge their knowledge, vocabulary, and get the information from a text. In fact, there are many problems in reading, the students’ difficulties to understand reading material of the text, find out topic, main idea, general information, specific information of a text. The researcher proposes to use Herringbone. The aim of this research is to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension before and after being taught using Herringbone, and the last to find out any effect of Herringbone on students’ reading comprehension.This research used quantitative research and the research method was pre experimental design, namely the one-group pre-test post-test design. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students of SMKN 2 Kediri in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the research was class X TKJ-1 Axiooconsist of 30 students. This research was held in two meetings involved pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The researcher used test as the instrument to collect the data. After collecting the data, the next step was analyzing them by using SPSS version 23 to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension using herringbone.The result showed the students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught using herringbone on students’ reading comprehension. It was proven by the mean after being taught using herringbone (76,83) was higher than the mean score before being taught using herringbone (64,50). The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table (12,577 > 2,045) it means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. From the result above, there was any significant effect of herringbone on students’ reading comprehension than teaching reading comprehension without using herringbone. It can be concluded, this technique was recommended for the teacher to teach the students’ especially in reading comprehension. Reading is one of the four language skills which are given in teaching English. Reading is very useful and important subject to learn, by reading students’ can enlarge their knowledge, vocabulary, and get the information from a text. In fact, there are many problems in reading, the students’ difficulties to understand reading material of the text, find out topic, main idea, general information, specific information of a text. The researcher proposes to use Herringbone. The aim of this research is to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension before and after being taught using Herringbone, and the last to find out any effect of Herringbone on students’ reading comprehension.This research used quantitative research and the research method was pre experimental design, namely the one-group pre-test post-test design. The subject of the research was the tenth grade students of SMKN 2 Kediri in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the research was class X TKJ-1 Axiooconsist of 30 students. This research was held in two meetings involved pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The researcher used test as the instrument to collect the data. After collecting the data, the next step was analyzing them by using SPSS version 23 to know the effect of teaching reading comprehension using herringbone.The result showed the students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught using herringbone on students’ reading comprehension. It was proven by the mean after being taught using herringbone (76,83) was higher than the mean score before being taught using herringbone (64,50). The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table (12,577 > 2,045) it means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. From the result above, there was any significant effect of herringbone on students’ reading comprehension than teaching reading comprehension without using herringbone. It can be concluded, this technique was recommended for the teacher to teach the students’ especially in reading comprehension.
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