Esteem Journal of English Study Programme
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): Esteem Journal of English Education Study Programme

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION BY USING GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

Etty Pratiwi (Universitas PGRI Palembang)
Dewi Kartikasari (Universitas PGRI Palembang)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Jul 2020

Abstract

The researchers had found that learning reading are (1) investigating whether there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension achievement before and after being taught by using Guessing Meaning from Context strategy, (2) findingout in terms of strategies for Guessing Meaning from Context which strategies produced better achievement by the students.The researchers carried out quantitative study with one group Pre-test Post-test Design, involving one class as experimental class. The instrument in this research was reading test. The data analysis showed there was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught by using Guessing Meaning from Context strategy. Then, surrounding words, pictures, experience, and imagination as the strategiesincreased the most than the otherstrategies. Hypothesis test showed that the significance value (2- tailed) was 0.000 (p<0.05). It could be concluded that null-hypothesis was rejected. So, the result of the research inferred Guessing Meaning from Context to be able to improve the students’ reading comprehension in all aspects. Keywords: guessing meaning from context, improving, reading skill. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

esteem

Publisher

Subject

Education Social Sciences

Description

Journal Esteem publishes academic articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The journal invites submission of 1) Research that emanates from or informs campus-community ...