English Language Teaching Methodology (ELTM)
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2021): ELTM: Various Language-Teaching Procedures

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION BY USING LITERARY WORK

Aidil Fitrah Rustan (Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar,Indonesia)
Ummi Khaerati Syam (Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar,Indonesia)
Herlina Daddi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar,Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Dec 2021

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out students’ literal reading comprehension by using literary work as a Media. The researcher employed a pre-experimental design, in which pre-test and post-test comparison was used to find out whether the used literary work Media enhance the students’ reading skill, the population of the research was all students of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Gowa which consisted of three classes. The sample was class XI Bahasa which consisted of 28 students’ by using cluster sampling technique. The instruments of this research was reading test. To analyze the score of the students’ achievement in pre-test and post-test the researcher used t-test analyzes. The result of the data showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The value of t-test in terms of main idea was 12.1 and fsupporting detail was 12.5. There figure was greater than the t-table (1.729) at the level of significant (p) = 0.05 degree of freedom (df) = 18. Therefore, it can be said that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. It means that there was a significant difference between the students’ reading skill before and after using literary work as a media or it can be stated that the use of literari work as a media was effective in improving students’ reading skill at eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Gowa.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eltm

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

English Language Teaching Methodology (ELTM), Provides research results related to teaching methods that refer to general principles, pedagogies, and management strategies used in the classroom during the teaching and learning process related to language development. The ELTM journal also Formulates ...