THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SCRAMBLED PICTURES IN INCREASING STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY

Ria Silvita Tanum, Cucu Sutarsyah, Hartati Hasan

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dari pencapaian pemahaman membaca siswa sebelum dan setelah diajarkan menggunakan gambar-gambar acak dan mengetahui aspek yang manakah dari kemampuan membaca yang paling tinggi peningkatannya setelah penerapan dari pembelajaran ini. Sampel dari penelitian ini adalah kelas VIII D dari kelas delapan SMP tahun ajaran 2013/2014. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu kelompok desain pretest posttest dengan instrumen tes membaca. Hasil dari pembelajaran membaca dengan menggunakan gambar-gambar acak menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dalam pemahaman membaca siswa t-ratio > t-table (22,893 > 2,045). Nilai rata-rata posttest (63,23) lebih tinggi daripada nilai rata-rata pretest (53,33), dan memiliki peningkatan 9,9 dan aspek kemampuan membaca yang paling tinggi peningkatannya adalah ide pokok dengan persentasenya yaitu 32,22% (paling tinggi daripada aspek-aspek yang lain).

 

 

 

The aims of this research were to find out if there was significant difference of students’ reading comprehension after being through scrambled pictures and to investigate which aspect of reading skill was the most increased after the implementation of this study. The sample of this research was class VIII D of the second grade of SMP in academic year 2013/2014. This research applied one group pre-test post-test design using reading test as the instrument. The result of study showed that there is a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension since t-ratio > t-table ( 22.893 > 2.045). The average of post-test score (63.23) is higher than that of pre-test (53.33), and it has gain 9.9 and the most increased aspect of reading skills is the finding main idea since the percentage is 32.22% (higher than other aspects).

 

 

Keywords: effectiveness, reading ability, scrambled pictures.


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