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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING RANDOM TEXT STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING Rahmawati; Syamsiarna Nappu; Eka Prabawati Rum
Journal of Language Testing and Assessment Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Journal of Language Testing and Assessment (JLTA)
Publisher : FKIP Unismuh Makassar

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This pre-experimental research aimed at finding out whether or not the use of Random Text Strategy is effective to improve the students’ literal and interpretative reading comprehension at the 7th grade Students of SMPS Ahlu Shuffah Muhammadiyah, Bantaeng Regency, Province of South Sulawesi. The sample of this research was the 7th grade Students of SMPS Ahlu Shuffah Muhammadiyah.The researcher used purposive sampling method because that class was able to fulfill the rules and they had the characteristics that the researcher wants. Hence, the researcher want to overcome the students’ problem in reading and improve their reading skill through the use of random text strategy then the researcher chose the class with the low English learning achievement compared with the others classes especially for their reading skill and find out the effectiveness of this strategy. The findings of this research shown that there is a significant improvement toward the students’ reading comprehension in the post-test compared with the students score in pre-test. The use of random text strategy is effective to improve the students' literal reading comprehension. It based on the result of the students’ reading test in pre-test compared with the students’ reading test result in post-test.
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH CLUB PARTICIPATION AND STUDEN’S' ENGLISH LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN 1 BARRU Nawir, Aulia Ramanda; Nappu, Syamsiarna; Hambali, Uyunnasirah
Journal of Language Testing and Assessment Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024): Journal of Language Testing and Assessment (JLTA)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.56983/jlta.v4i2.1015

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This study aims to determine the correlation between students’ participation in the English Club Extracurriculars and their learning achievement. This research is a quantitative research with correlation method. The population of this study was students of class X MIPA SMAN 1 Barru with a sample of class X MIPA 1 who are selected by using purposive samplingtechnique for selecting the sample because the targetsample taken was students who took part in the English Club. The research data was coelected using two instruments; questionnaires and data documentation. The questionnaire used is an open-closed questionnaire with The document used is student learning outcomes. The questionnaire was distributed to the students who joined on English Club. Then the results was analyszed by calculating using the Spearman correlation analysis method using SPSS software with a significance level, the authors get a significant correlation of 0.008. The result is 0.008 < 0.05. Because 0.008 is lower than 0.005 (0.008 < 0.05), it means that there is a correlation between the student's participation in tutoring and the student's English achievement variable. In addition, from the data analysis, it was found that the Pearson Correlation was 0.621, which means that the correlation is strong according to the interpretation table correlation. Based on the research results, the null hypothesis is rejected. This means that there is a significant correlation between student participation in English Club and student learning achievements.