THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN

Reading is one of many ways to get information, where people can find it from television and internet. As reading dominates all activities in the English subject, the language components,namely pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary should also be learnt to support the language skills. Based on the E...

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Main Authors: Derliana Hasibuan, Dian Anggraini Harahap, Datulina Ginting, Dharyana Suryadijaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LPPM Universitas Labuhanbatu 2022-12-01
Series:Jurnal Eduscience
Online Access:https://jurnal.ulb.ac.id/index.php/eduscience/article/view/3423
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author Derliana Hasibuan
Dian Anggraini Harahap
Datulina Ginting
Dharyana Suryadijaya
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Datulina Ginting
Dharyana Suryadijaya
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description Reading is one of many ways to get information, where people can find it from television and internet. As reading dominates all activities in the English subject, the language components,namely pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary should also be learnt to support the language skills. Based on the English teacher interview result that authentic reading materials have never been used by the teachers, reading comprehension on the eighth grade students of junior high school of SMP Swasta Mma Uisu Medan so it was necessary to conduct a research in this school. The research design was quasi experimental. It began from conducting homogeneity test, deciding the experimental class and the control class, giving activities to the control class using the common technique and material usually applied by the English teacher and treatments to the experimental class that was using authentic materials in teaching reading, then giving the same post-test to both classes, and the last analyzing the results of the post test by using t-test. The result of this research The analysis of the post test results showed that there was a significant effect of using English authentic that of reading materials the experimental class got higher mean score than the control class (65, 1>57, 5) of the students’ reading achievement. Then, the result of data analysis using SPSS showed that the t-test value (2-tailed) 0.000, was less than 0.05.is expected to provide useful information for the English teacher to use interesting materials, that is, authentic materials in the English teaching learning process, especially in teaching reading comprehension, since the authentic materials have never been used at SMP Swasta Mma Uisu Medan.   Key Words : Authentic Materials, reading, comprehension.
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spelling doaj.art-1b001eb8b14845fbbe81266f474528ec2023-03-04T04:10:49ZengLPPM Universitas LabuhanbatuJurnal Eduscience2303-355X2685-22172022-12-019371772710.36987/jes.v9i3.34232445THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDANDerliana Hasibuan0Dian Anggraini Harahap1Datulina Ginting2Dharyana Suryadijaya3Universitas AsahanUniversitas AsahanUniversitas AsahanStmik Logika MedanReading is one of many ways to get information, where people can find it from television and internet. As reading dominates all activities in the English subject, the language components,namely pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary should also be learnt to support the language skills. Based on the English teacher interview result that authentic reading materials have never been used by the teachers, reading comprehension on the eighth grade students of junior high school of SMP Swasta Mma Uisu Medan so it was necessary to conduct a research in this school. The research design was quasi experimental. It began from conducting homogeneity test, deciding the experimental class and the control class, giving activities to the control class using the common technique and material usually applied by the English teacher and treatments to the experimental class that was using authentic materials in teaching reading, then giving the same post-test to both classes, and the last analyzing the results of the post test by using t-test. The result of this research The analysis of the post test results showed that there was a significant effect of using English authentic that of reading materials the experimental class got higher mean score than the control class (65, 1>57, 5) of the students’ reading achievement. Then, the result of data analysis using SPSS showed that the t-test value (2-tailed) 0.000, was less than 0.05.is expected to provide useful information for the English teacher to use interesting materials, that is, authentic materials in the English teaching learning process, especially in teaching reading comprehension, since the authentic materials have never been used at SMP Swasta Mma Uisu Medan.   Key Words : Authentic Materials, reading, comprehension.https://jurnal.ulb.ac.id/index.php/eduscience/article/view/3423
spellingShingle Derliana Hasibuan
Dian Anggraini Harahap
Datulina Ginting
Dharyana Suryadijaya
THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
Jurnal Eduscience
title THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
title_full THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
title_fullStr THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
title_full_unstemmed THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
title_short THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH AUTHENTIC READING MATERIALSON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMP SWASTA MMA UISU MEDAN
title_sort effect of using english authentic reading materialson the eighth grade students reading comprehension achievement at smp swasta mma uisu medan
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