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Literacy Lessons and a Reading Contest to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension (A Case of Students in an Indonesian Senior High School, SMAN 1 Soe) Yabes Olbata; Marike Nelwan; Getreda Y Oematan
English Language and Education Spectrum Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): July, 2022
Publisher : English Education Department - Universitas Nasional Karangturi

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53416/electrum.v2i2.83

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Teaching and learning is a good way to reach the educational goals. This is a classroom action research. The objective of this study was finding out how reading literacy improve students’ comprehension. This study used mix method design. The instruments used were test. The data of this study were collected through spreading questionnaires and doing interviews. The result of the study showed reading literacy could improve students’ comprehension. The data analysis showed that there was a significant improvement of students’ comprehension in cycle I compared to cycle II. It was because reading literacy could facilitate students in identifying problems, brain storming, analyzing, formulating problems, and presenting well.
IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA NEGERI 1 SOE THROUGH POSSE STRATEGY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2021/2022 Yabes Olbata; Marike Nelwan; Dessy Natty
Wiralodra English Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023): Wiralodra English Journal
Publisher : Universitas Wiralodra

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31943/wej.v7i1.203

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The objective of this research is to improve reading comprehension of the tenth grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Soe through POSSE strategy. The type of the research was action research. The subjects of the research were 32 students of grade X Science 1 at SMA Negeri 1 Soe. There were two kinds of the data in this research were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were obtained by doing observation, interviewing and field note. The quantitative data were obtained from the pre-test and post-test. They were presented in the form of scores and analyzed by using descriptive statistics in SPSS 17 program. The result showed that POSSE strategy allows students to have practices in predicting the text, organizing the prediction, searching the main idea, summarizing the text, and evaluating their understanding of the text. It also helped the students enrich their vocabulary by maximizing use of the predicting and the evaluating steps. Then, most students show their enthusiasm and active participation in the teaching and learning process of reading. Finally, there is an improvement on students’ reading comprehension. It could be concluded that POSSE strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension.