The Effect of Using Authentic Material on Junior High School Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

Reading is an essential skill in learning English. In teaching reading, the teachers need to bring materials that effective in teaching reading. Authentic material is one of the learning sources that can help students develop their reading skills. This material is also known as a great reading material. In line with this, this research tried to investigate whether using authentic materials significantly affects students’ reading comprehension achievement. This research was a quasi-experimental research with a post-test-only design. The sample of this research was 57 eighth-grade students. The instrument used to collect the data was a reading comprehension test. The data was analyzed using the Independent Sample t-test on the SPSS computing program. The result showed that the value of sig (2-tailed) was 0.178, higher than 0.05. Consequently, it could be revealed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was accepted, and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected.