| dc.description.abstract | 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). | en_US |
