Improving Students Reading Comprehension Through Information Gap Technique

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan membaca siswa setelah diajarkan melalui information gap technique. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain one group pretest dan posttest. Tes membaca digunakan untuk pengambilan data. Data ini di analisis menggunakan repeated measured T-test. Subyek penelitian ini 30 siswa dari kelas dua pada SMAN 12 Bandar Lampung. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan antara pretest dan posttest. Dengan level signifikan adalah p<0.05 (p=0.000). Dari hasil yang didapat, disimpulkan bahwa information gap technique memberi kesempatan kepada siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca mereka.

The aims of the research were to find out the improvement of students’ reading comprehension  after they were through by information gap technique. The research used one group pretest and posttest design. The reading test was used to collect the data. The datas were analyzed by using repeated measured T-test. The subjects of this study were 30 students from second grade students of SMAN 12 Bandar Lampung. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students’ mean score between the pretest and the posttest with significant level p<0.05 (p=0.000). This suggests that information gap technique facilities the student to improve their reading comprehension achievement.

Keywords: improve, information gap technique, reading comprehension