THE EFFECT OF THE WORD CARD STRATEGY ON THE READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 PRAMBANAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Herningtyas, Dhanastri (2014) THE EFFECT OF THE WORD CARD STRATEGY ON THE READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 PRAMBANAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference between the reading comprehension achievements of grade X students of SMA N 1 Prambanan in the academic year of 2013/2014 who are taught using the word card strategy and that of those who are taught without using the strategy. The research was a quasi-experimental study. It involved 60 students of grade X classes of SMA N 1 Prambanan in the second semester of the academic year of 2013/2014 who were divided into two groups, X IPA2 as the experimental group and X IPA1 as the control group. The students in the experimental group were taught by using the word card strategy, whereas those in the control group were taught without using the strategy. The data were collected using the reading comprehension test. It was administered to the two groups as the pre-test and the post-test. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive and inferential statistics. The data scores in the pre-test and post-test of both groups were found as homogenous but the data set for the post-test of the control group deviated from normal distribution. Then, the hypothesis was tested using the non-parametric statistics, the Mann-Whitney U-Test. The findings of the research show that that the value of significance is 0.400 which is above the level of significance (0.05). It means that there is no significant difference between the reading comprehension achievement of grade X students of SMA N 1 Prambanan in the academic year of 2013/2014 who are taught using the word card strategy and those who are taught without it. The mean score of the pre-test and the post-test of the control group increased from 79.86 to 85.90 or increased 6.04 point. The mean score of the pre-test and the post-test of the experimental group increased from 80.35 to 84.02 or increased 3.67 point. There are some factors identified by the researchers that affected the result of the study. They are the WCS and the repetition system and vocabulary as one of the micro-skills in reading comprehension, teachers’ control and feedbacks, integrated teaching and learning of the reading and the writing skills, and careful attention on the keyword technique. Finally, the word card strategy can be applied as an alternative of vocabulary learning in combination with controlled-vocabulary exercises in the classrooms and with careful attention of the repetition system in memorization process.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: word card strategy, reading comprehension, sma n 1 prambanan
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2015 01:56
Last Modified: 29 Jan 2019 21:26
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/17123

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