LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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Comparison of the Learning Effectiveness on the Teaching of Reading Comprehension

Ive Emaliana, M.Pd.

Abstract

This research was conducted to compare the effectiveness of a teaching technique in reading comprehension on students’ achievement in English course at university level. The main purposes of the study were to examine the difference between the freshmen’s academic achievement in reading comprehension taught by a new teaching technique and by conventional one, and to examine which teaching technique was more effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension achievement. This research adopted a quasi-experimental, non-randomized control group pretest-posttest design.

Major and minor instruments were administered to students of faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science at Brawijaya University, one of famous universities in Indonesia. The collected data were arranged into table and analyzed by using T-test. The analyzed data were interpreted into findings of the study, and conclusions were drawn from these findings.

The results revealed that there was a statistically significant difference in the students’ reading comprehension achievement. In conclusion, the new teaching technique was more effective than the conventional one.

Key words: quasi experimental, teaching technique, student’s achievement, reading comprehension

INTRODUCTION

The ability to read in English is usually considered as an important skill especially in countries where English is learnt as a foreign language. Similarly, in Indonesia people learn English as a means of gaining access to information rather than acquiring it as a means of oral communication. Related to this, Indonesian education present system puts reading as one of skills to be taught in the teaching of English especially at tertiary level.

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Ive Emaliana, M.Pd.
English Linguistics and Literature Education Program
Faculty of Culture Studies
University of Brawijaya
Indonesia
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ive@ub.ac.id
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