Journal of English Literacy Education
Vol 6, No 1 (2019): The Journal of English Literacy Education

IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 PALEMBANG BY USING ONLINE MIND MAPPING

Rani Inke Maris (Universitas Sriwijaya)
Chuzaimah Dahlan Diem (Universitas Sriwijaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2019

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang after they were taught by using online mind mapping, and (2) whether or not there was contribution of each sub-skill of reading comprehension to reading comprehension achievement of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang.  In this study, Time Series design was applied. The sample of this study was 40 tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang, who belong to the experimental group. To collect the data, the experimental group was given a pretest and a post test. The result showed that (1). the mean difference between pre-test and post-test of the experimental group was 34.70 at the significance level of p value <0.05. Since t obtained was higher than t table (18.2111>2.023), H01 was rejected and there was a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement after they were taught by using online mind mapping, (2).The highest contribution of reading sub-skill was given by sequence (39.4%) and then it was followed by vocabulary (23.3%), detail (17.3%), main idea (9.1%), inference (5.6%) and cause and effect (5.2%).Keywords: reading comprehension, online mind mapping

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