COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION TO UNDERSTAND NARRATIVE

Tyas Desita Wengrum, Ujang Suparman, Editha Gloria Simanjuntak

Abstract


The objective of this research are to find out whether there is any significant difference of students‟ reading comprehension to understand narrative text between extrovert and introvert personality. The population of the research was the students of the first grade of SMAN 1 Seputih Banyak, Lampung Tengah in the academic year 2012/2013 in X5 class. The research design used was ex post facto design. The result showed that there was difference between the mean of extrovert group, which was (76.28) and the mean of extrovert group (61.17). The writer used one-tailed T-test formula in SPSS 15 to do the calculation with the level significant of 0.05. The result of computation showed that t-value is (0.000). The t-value exceed the t-table at the level of significance 0.05 (6.087>2.056). Based on the result of the research, it is proved that the students of extrovert type have better result than introvert in reading comprehension test. So, from this statement the researcher‟s hypothesis is accepted.

 

Keywords: comparative, extrovert and introvert personality, reading comprehension.

 


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