THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT EIGHTH GRADE OF MTS NEGERI LAMONGAN

SETIYANINGSIH, NIA (2017) THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT EIGHTH GRADE OF MTS NEGERI LAMONGAN. undergraduate thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik.

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Abstract

This study was conducted based on a thought that reading was a difficultly comprehensible subject. Most of students in any school had same problem, it is reading comprehension. Therefore researcher made a research to prove this issue and would get the answer of this problem. The result of his research in one of schools in Lamongan proven that students’ reading comprehension were weak. This study aimed to know the significant effect in Reading Comprehension by Information Gap Activities. The researcher took 64 students as the sample. They grouped into two classes, one of experimental group VIII C that consist of 32 students and VIII E as control group that also consist of 32 students. The design of the study was Quasi Experimental Design. The instrument used to collect the data was reading test to set scores of students’ reading comprehension. In this research, there are five procedures of research design that was giving pre-test, giving treatment, giving post-test, analyzing the data using t-test formula and wrote the hypothesis. The research finding showed that this technique was effective to teach reading for eighth grades at MTSN Lamongan. The students’ average score in pre-test between experimental and control group was 62.187 and 65.625. The score improved in post-test. The significant value of experimental group was 0.00 it was lower than the level of significant at 0.05. Based on the hypothesis result, there is significant different between experimental and control group. Based on the research finding, it could be concluded that Information Gap Activities improve Reading Comprehension. The researcher concluded that information gap activities gave positive impact towards students’ reading comprehension. The researcher also provided three suggestions for the teacher, students and other researcher. The first, teacher should choose the materials that are appropriate and not too difficult for the students before assigning the information activity to the students, the teacher should make sure that the students have fully understood and have the information they need. Then, the teacher should keep control the student activities. So, the teacher should present the language in an enjoyable, relaxed and understandable way. Then, the students are hoped to be active and creative in enriching their vocabularies and to make them easier to understand the text and hoped to use English when they practice information gap activities although it is hard for them. For the next researcher was who wants to conduct a research using information gap activities were recommended to conducted this research in different wider areas, specific text reading comprehension and level.

Item Type:	Thesis (undergraduate)
Subjects:	English Education English Education > English
Divisions:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program
Depositing User:	Shandy Rahma Ramadhan, S.IIP
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2019 01:58
Last Modified:	26 Aug 2019 01:58
URI:	http://eprints.umg.ac.id/id/eprint/2783

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