Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa dan Sastra

A STUDY ON THE ABILITY OF SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF FKIP MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG TO IMPROVE COMPREHENDING ENGLISH TEXTS

muhammad arif wahyudi (Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Dec 2014

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Reading is one of language skill, which must be developed with practice. The students learn how to read well in order to comprehend texts, either in a short text or long one. The researcher got research at English Department of FKIP of Muhammadiyah University of Malang especially Second Semesters that had a problem to comprehend English Text. The data collected from the reading test were analyzed to find the answer of problem. The steps in process were as follows: firstly, the writer corrected the student’s answer sheets; secondly, give score for each answer sheet, thirdly, identified the student’s score. This study uses descriptive method by collecting data in order to answer the question concerning status of subject of study. The subjectis second semesters that consist of 200 of students. The instrument uses to collect the data is reading test that are to know their ability in English text.The result of the analyzing of available can be interpreted that the students of English Department have mastered the English texts, and many students get problem namely 32 the students getting high score, 8 students getting lower score and the mean of value reliability items are 12,425. It means that the student’s ability in comprehending texts is good. It is hoped that teacher will make to use of this findings by giving more attention to comprehend English text in teaching and learning of English so that the student’s ability in comprehending texts can be improve.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JIBS

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JIBS (Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa dan Sastra) (ISSN 23557083) is an online journal published by the University of Kanjuruhan Malang. The journal encourages submission into the subject of language, literature, linguistic and its relation toward teaching both written in English and Indonesian. This journal ...