Register : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning of FBS UNIMED
Vol 2, No 4 (2013)

The Effect of Guessing Word Game in Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Aprillyani Ginting and Sri Minda Murni (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2013

Abstract

This study deals with The Effect of Using Guessing Word GameTechnique on Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension. Theobjective of the study is to find out whether Guessing Word GameTechnique significantly affects students’ achievement in readingcomprehension. The population of the study is the second year students of2011/2012 of SMPN 28 Medan, where there are seven parallel classes withtotally 280 students and the sample which is chosen randomly are twoclasses (40 studends). The sample is divided into two groups, experimentalgroup taught by using Guessing Word Game Technique and control grouptaught by using conventional technique. The data were obtained by usingmultiple choice and analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of theresearch shows that t-observed (1.77) is higher than t-table (1.667) on df 78and the level of significance 0.05. It means that there is a significant effectof using Guessing Word Game Technique in students’ readingcomprehension achievement or in another words the hypothesis is accepted.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eltu

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

REGISTER Journal is a quarterly publication presenting articles on English Language Teaching. The contents include analysis, studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development and ...