A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS THAUGHT THROUGH RETELLING STORY AND TRANSLATION

Tacca Prita Yudhistira, Ujang Suparman, Sudirman Sudirman

Abstract


The objectives of the research are to investigate whether there is significant difference on reading comprehension achievement between students who are taught through Retelling Story and those who are taught through Translation and to find out which one is more effective technique. This research was a quantitative research using true experimental design. The sample was chosen randomly through lottery. The data was gained by administering pretest and posttest to both classes. The test result showed that the mean score of posttest in the experimental class one was 79.75 and the mean of posttest in the experimental class two was 71.87. with probability level (p) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05. It means that there was a significant difference on reading comprehension achievement between students who were taught through Retelling Story and those who were taught through translation and retelling story was more effectives in increasing students’ reading comprehension achievement than Translation.

 

Key words: reading, retelling story, translation.


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