THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT IN IMPROVING STUDENTS READING SKILL

Erizkha Hardanti, Cucu Sutarsyah, Hery Yufrizal

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) menginvestigasi apakah ada perbedaan pada pemahaman membaca siswa sebelum dan sesudah diajar menggunakan strategi guessing meaning from context, (2) menemukan strategi manakah dari guessing meaning from context yang menghasilkan pencapaian yang lebih baik oleh siswa. Untuk mencapai tujuan ini, peneliti menggunakan studi kuantitatif melibatkan satu kelas. Instrumen untuk pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini adalah tes membaca. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan pada pencapaian pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan strategi tersebut. Strategi surrounding words, pictures, experience, dan imagination yang paling signifikan meningkat diantara strategi yang lain. Hasil tes hipotesis menunjukan bahwa nilai signifikan (2- tailed) adalah 0.000 (p<0.05). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa H0 ditolak dan menunjukan bahwa strategi guessing meaning from context dapat meningkatkan pemahaman siswa dalam membaca di semua aspek.

This study aimed at (1) investigating whether there was a significant difference of students reading comprehension achievement before and after being taught by using Guessing Meaning from Context strategy, (2) findingout in terms of strategies for Guessing Meaning from Context which strategies produced better achievement by the students.The researcher carried out quantitative study with one group Pre-test Post-test Design, involving one class as experimental class. The instrument in this research was reading test. The results of data analysis showed there was a significant difference on students reading comprehension achievement after being taught by using Guessing Meaning from Context strategy. Then, surrounding words, pictures, experience, and imagination as the strategiesincreased the most than the otherstrategies. Hypothesis testshowed thatthe significance value (2- tailed) was 0.000 (p<0.05). It could be concluded that null-hypothesis was rejected, and itbe inferred Guessing Meaning from Context strategyincrease the students reading comprehension in all aspects.

Keywords: guessing meaning from context, implementation, reading skill.


Full Text:

PDF

References


Ayu, M.H.P. 2012.Increasing The Eighth Grade Students Vocabulary Mastery by Guessing Meaning from Context of Recount Text at SMPN 7 Palembang.Palembang: University of Sriwijaya.

Clark, M.A. and Silberstein, S. 1987. Toward a Realization of Psycholinguistic Principles in the ESL Reading Class, in Methodology TESOL.New York: New Bury House Publisher.

Grabe, W. 2009.Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hatch, E. and Farhady, H. 1982. Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. London: Newbury House Publishers Inc.

Liu, N- Nation, I.S.P. 1985. Factors affecting guessing vocabulary in context. RELC Journal, 16(1). (Retrieved from http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/51323/1/FullText.pdf?accept=1).

Nation, P. & Coady, J. 1988.Vocabulary and Reading. In R. Carter & M. McCarthy (Eds.), Vocabulary and Language Teaching (pp. 97-110). London and New York: Longman.

Nuttal, C. 1985.TeachingReading Skills in Foreign Language. British Library Catalouging in Publication: London.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2015 U-JET