| dc.description.abstract | SUMMARY
The Effect of Webbing Technique on The Eighth Grade Students’ Reading
Comprehension Achievement At SMP Negeri 7 Jember in the 2012/2013
Academic Year; Eli Wahyuning Tiyas, 090210401103; 2012:48 pages; English
Education Program of Language and Arts Education department, the Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education, Jember University.
English has an important role in advancement of knowledge and it has been
taught to all students’ level. English has four main skills namely listening, speaking,
writing and reading. Reading is the most important skill that must be taught and
mastered by the students besides the other skills because it is an activity to get
information from written texts. Most students still have problems in comprehending
reading texts. Mostly, their problems in reading are caused by some reasons, for
example, the students do not have enough knowledge about the topic and they are
lack of vocabularies. Therefore, the English teacher needs an appropriate technique to
facilitate the students in comprehending their reading skill by connecting their
background knowledge with the topic being discussed and to build their vocabulary
by providing new words that helps them to comprehend the reading text as well as
possible
This research was conducted to investigate the effect of webbing technique on
the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 7
Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The population of this research was all of the
eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The
research respondents were determined by a homogeneity test (reading test). The
number of the respondents was 78 students, consisting of 39 students of grade VIII G
as the experimental group taught by using webbing technique, and 39 students of VIII
H as the control group, taught without using webbing technique (by using lecturing
and question-answer techniques).
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There were two kinds of data in this research, primary data and supporting
data. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of
reading test, and the supporting data were taken from interview and documentation.
The primary data were collected from the post-test to compare reading
comprehension achievement of the two different groups after treatment, and then the
researcher analyzed the result of the test by using Independent sample t-Test (SPSS).
Based on the calculation, the result of this research showed that there was a
significant effect of using webbing technique on the eighth grade students’ reading
comprehension achievement. It was proved by the value of significant column of ttest
table
by
using
SPSS
sofware,
and
the
result
was
0.000
which
was
lower
than
0.05
(significant
level
of
5%).
This
means
that
the
null
hypothesis
(H
) formulated: “There
is no significant effect of webbing technique on the eighth grade students’ reading
comprehension achievement at SMP Negeri 7 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic
year” was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis: “There is a significant effect of
webbing technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement
at SMP Negeri 7 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year” was accepted.
The research results proved that there was a significant effect of webbing
technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMP
Negeri 7 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. Therefore, it is recommended for
the English teacher to use webbing technique as an alternative technique in teaching | en_US |
