Industri Inovatif : Jurnal Teknik Industri
Vol 3 No 2 (2013): inovatif Vol. 3 No. 2

STUDENTS’ COMPREHENSIONIN UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERING ENGLISH THROUGH READING INSTRUCTION

Addy Utomo (Jurusan Teknik Industri, Fakultas Teknologi Industri, Institut Teknologi Nasional Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Aug 2013

Abstract

Englishis an important language to communicate for any levels of students. Unfortunetely, although thestudents get this language from early, they still cannot master it well. They are not good in passing many skills ofEnglish, just like the speakingskill, writingskill, readingskill, and also listening skill. As a matter of the factabove, it makes the teachers have an additional duty to give a better method in teaching them in order that theycan accept the lesson well and get a better result at the end. That is why the researcher is interested inconducting a method, reading instruction, to be implemented in EngineeringDepartment of ITN Malang in thefirst semester.Here, the researcher faces a problem, thatis “how can reading instructionincrease students’comprehension inunderstanding EnglishEngineering”. This study is intended to see how the readinginstructioncan increase students’ comprehension in understanding English Engineering. The researcher uses twotypes of reading instruction, those are: direct and indirect instruction.Getting the data, the researcher uses a classaction research because he takes the data by himself. He teaches the students by the help of a collaborator. Toget the data, the researcher uses an interview, observation, test, questionnaire, and also documentation as theinstruments. Here, the researcher conducts two cycles, in which every cycle consists of four steps, those are:planning, acting, observing and evaluating, and also reflecting. During the two cycles conducted, the students getimprovement. At the first cycle, the students get a mean as 77.75. Meanwhile at the second cycle, they get themean as 88.67. From this result, it is shown that the method is successful. Some suggestions are extended for theother researchers. The other researchers are suggested to apply this method to other skill of English, just like atspeaking subject or take the different subject of the study for the next research.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

industri

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Subject

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

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Terbit dua kali dalam setahun pada bulan Maret dan September. Berisi gagasan, konseptual, kajian teori, aplikasi teori dan kajian buku Teknik Industri. Makalah yang masuk ditelaah oleh mitra bestari yang kompeten di bidang teknik dan manajemen ...