TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION USING SNAKES AND LADDERS GAME AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA SEJAHTERA PARE IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018
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SITI NUR AFIFAHUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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English consists of four skills. One of the skills is reading which is as one of receptive skills also that cannot be separated with comprehension. By this learning, the students will be able to get more opportunity to know more brances of science. But practically, the expectation of making students more understand the knowledge in teaching reading is not as easy as the wish because the students still face many difficulties of reading comprehension. As the result, the students’ reading score is low. Consequently, the good media in teaching to improve the students’ reading comprehension is needed to be applied by the teacher. In this research, the researcher purposes to deliver one of media for teaching reading in easy and enjoyable way that is using snakes and ladders game at eleventh grade students of MA Sejahtera Pare in academic year of 2017/2018. The researcher’s problem is students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using snakes and ladders game and the next is how effective is teaching reading using snakes and ladders game. This research is quantitative using pre- experimental method exactly one-group pre-test post-test design. The subject in this research was at the eleventh grades students of MA Sejahtera as sample namely XI-IPA consisting of 19 students in detail of 13 female and 6 male students. The data was collected through pre-test and post-test in the form of multiple choices of reading with the text of hortatory. The result data was analyzed using t-test with SPSS V.16. Then the score result was – 15.243 at the t- score. The t-table at the degree of freedom 5% is 2.101. It means that the value of t-test is out of the area of Null Hypothesis (Ho) so it was rejected and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Therefore, in this research shows if there is significant effect of snakes and ladders game to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
KATA KUNCI : Reading Comprehension, Teaching Reading, Snakes and Ladders game
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