U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 4, No 7 (2015): U-JET

IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH TASK-BASED LEARNING AT SMPN SECOND GRADE

Frincelly Awlisia Ramadona (Unknown)
Muhammad Sukirlan (Unknown)
Ramlan Ginting Suka (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Oct 2015

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa menggunakan teknik Task-Based Learning, dan apa masalah yang dihadapi siswa dalam menggunakan teknik tersebut. Peneliti menggunakan desain pre-test dan post-test dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan dalam kemampuan membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan teknik Task-Based Learning. Data tersebut menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata post-test (68.00) lebih tinggi dibanding nilai rata-rata pre-test (59.17) dengan peningkatan 8.83. Dapat dikatakan bahwa teknik Task-Based Learning meningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa. Masalah yang dihadapi oleh siswa adalah terbatasnya waktu dan masih bingung dalam menggunakan tugas pembuatan daftar dalam teknik Task-Based Learning.The purposes of this research were to determine whether there was an improvement of students reading comprehension through Task-Based Learning technique and what problems were faced by the students in this technique. Researcher used a pre-test and post-test design in this research. The result of the research showed that there was an improvement in students reading comprehension after being taught using Task-Based Learning technique. The result showed that students mean score of post-test (68.00) was higher than mean score of pre-test (59.17) with 8.83 gain score. It can be said that Task-Based Learning technique improved students' reading comprehension. Problems that were faced by the students were time limitation and still had confused of using listing task in Task-Based Learning technique.Keywords: reading comprehension, task-based learning technique, listing task.

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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 ...