U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 3, No 2 (2014): U-JET

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT IN GUESSING AND MAKING INFERENCES TECHNIQUES

Ida Bagus Made Ambara Putra (Unknown)
Ujang Suparman (Unknown)
Basturi Hasan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Feb 2014

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk (1) meneliti apakah ada perbedaan prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa antara mereka yang diajarkan melalui teknik menebak dan melalui teknik menyimpulkan dan (2) menentukan salah satu dari dua teknik tersebut yang lebih efektif dalam meningkatkan prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa. Peneliti menggunakan desain pretest posttest kelompok independen dalam menganalisa data. Sampel penelitian adalah siswa kelas XI IPA 4 dan XI IPA 5. Hasil penelitian mengindikasi bahwa teknik menebak lebih efektif dibandingkan dengan teknik menyimpulkan dalam meningkatkan prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa. Nilai rata-rata posttest pada kelas eksperimen adalah 73.62 sedangkan pada kelas kontrol adalah 67.80. Nilai dari dua ekor signifikan adalah 0.000 yang berarti bahwa  ditolak dan diterima dimana 0.000 0.05.The objectives of the research are (1) to investigate whether there is any significant difference of students’ reading comprehension achievement between those taught through guessing and through making inferences techniques and (2) to determine which one is more effective of the two techniques. The researcher applied independent group t-test in analysing the data. The sample of the research was Natural Science 4 and Natural Science 5 students. The finding indicated that guessing technique was more effective than making inferences technique in improving students’ reading comprehension achievement. The mean score of posttest in experimental class was 73.62 while in control class was 67.80. The value of two tailed significant was 0.000 which meant that  was rejected and  was accepted since 0.000 0.05.Keywords: guessing technique, improving, making inferences technique, reading

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...