Risdha R, Risdha R (2019) Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Through Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy at the Nineth Grade Students of MTs Lautang Belawa. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Parepare.

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Abstract

Reading is a skill that must be mastered by students in learning English as a foreign language. Reading not only see or read what is written but also understand the contents of the reading therefore the readers get the knowledge and information from the text. Students need to master reading to communicate and receive some information (technology, science and education) to get good understanding about the reading material and to be able to get good comprehension about the material, the students need to read it well and effectively. The objectives of this research is to improve students’ reading comprehension through Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy. The design of this study was pre-experimental, and the population of this study is nineth grade students of MTs Lautang Belawa and the sampling process was administered by appliying a purposive sampling technique. There were 51 students in nineth grade and the researcher took class IX.2 as the sample, there are 16 students at class. The instruments used for measuring the students’ reading comprehension through Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy is reading test. The result showed that the students mean score of pre-test was 46,875 and their score of post-test was 70, in which the gain amounted 23,125. It means that there was significant difference of students’ reading comprehension before and after treatment through DRTA strategy. Then the rate percentage in post-test was higher than the rate percentage in pre-test in teaching reading, and t-test value was greater than t-table value (6,36 ≥ 1,753). The result of the research proved that through DRTA strategy were effective to be used in teaching the students’ reading comprehension and it means that null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be concluded that DRTA strategy can used to improve students reading comprehension.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Reading Comprehension and DRTA Strategy
Subjects: 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2003 Language Studies > 200302 English Language
Divisions: Fakultas Tarbiyah > Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Subhan Saleh
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2019 18:30
Last Modified: 15 Dec 2019 18:30
URI: https://repository.iainpare.ac.id/id/eprint/954

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