| dc.description.abstract | Reading comprehension is the process of interaction between the reader and the text in order to get message or information from the text. It is in line with McWhorter (1986:116) who stated that reading is the process of constructing meaning through the dynamic interaction among the reader's existing knowledge. The researcher believes that teaching reading comprehension should be facilitated by an appropriate teaching technique in order to make the students gain the information from the text as much as possible. Therefore, it is teacher’s responsibility to seek an apropriate teaching technique to help the students in comprehending the test easily. One of the techniques that the researcher implemented was by using a teaching technique named webbing technique.
In addition, Langan (2001:183) describes that webbing technique is one of teaching techniques that can be used in helping the students to comprehend a reading text because it enables the students to find the important ideas and details easily. According to Hennings (1997:279) webbing is a teaching technique that can help students understand the information from the text, as webbing technique helps to gather some important information related to the text before doing the test. Therefore, by using webbing technique, the students are able to find the topic and subtopics and to organize the information of the text effectively.
This experimental research was conducted to investigate the effect of using webbing technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement. The population of this research was the whole eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Jember. The research respondents were determined based on the results of homogeneity test by using ANOVA formula in SPSS program. Since the population was homogeneous, sampling was done by lottery to choose both
experimental and control groups. As the result, 35 students of VIII C were selected as the experimental class whereas 35 students of VIII A were chosen as the control one. The experimental class was exposed to the use of webbing technique whereas the control class received no treatment as they were only taught by question and answer technique.
After presenting the materials to the experimental and the control classes, the researcher measured the students’ reading comprehension achievement by administering the post-test. The researcher analyzed the results of post test by using Independent sample t-test in SPSS program to reveal the mean difference between the groups. Based on the calculation of the data analysis, the significance value was 0.020. As it was lower than 0.05, it could be proved that null hypothesis was rejected while the alternative hypothesis was accepted. In other words, there was a significant effect of using webbing technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement. | en_US |
