| dc.description.abstract | Reading is one of the important skills in order to get some information from
different types of material and for different purposes in learning English. In teaching
reading, the teacher should apply the appropriate technique in the reading class that
can help the students to get the message or the information from the text. Therefore,
applying Cornell Note Taking technique can be used as one of the teaching
techniques that can help the students to comprehend the reading materials.
This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using Cornell Note
Taking technique on the ninth year students’ reading comprehension achievement at
SMPN 1 Diwek Jombang in the 2010/2011 academic year. The populations of this
research were the ninth year students of SMPN 1 Diwek Jombang in the 2010/2011
academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random
sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 71 students,
consisting of 36 students of grade IX-C as the experimental group taught by using
Cornell Note Taking technique that was done individually, while the control group
consisting of 35 students of grade IX-B taught by PPP (presentation, practice and
product) technique. The data of this research were collected from the scores of reading
comprehension test. The data were collected from the post test to make comparison
between the two groups after treatments, and analyzed by using t-test formula. Based
on the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher that that of
the mean score of the control group (78.05 > 70.71). The result of the t-test analysis
with 95% significant level of was higher than that of the t-table (5 2.00). It means
that the null hypothesis was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis stating that there
is a significant effect of using Cornell Note Taking technique on the grade IX
students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 1 Diwek Jombang in the
2010/2011 academic year was accepted. This shows that there was a significant mean
difference between the experimental group and the control group.
The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using Cornell
Note Taking technique on the ninth year students’ reading comprehension
achievement at SMPN 1 Diwek Jombang in the 2010/2011 academic year. Therefore,
it is recommended for the English teacher to learn and use Cornell Note Taking
technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension and the
students can practice their ability in comprehending the reading materials by using
Cornell Note Taking technique to improve their reading comprehension achievement.
Furthermore, hopefully the research results are useful as a consideration to give
information for other researchers to conduct further research. | en_US |
