FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE

Investigation related to reading comprehension has been conducted by a number of researchers and even some of them focussing their research on reading conprehension of narrative text. However, research on this respect needs pay more attention to be scrutinied. The aims of this research are to know a...

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Main Authors: Alek Alek, Yulianti Sari
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Published: English Department of Antasari State Islamic University 2017-05-01
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Online Access:https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1440
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description Investigation related to reading comprehension has been conducted by a number of researchers and even some of them focussing their research on reading conprehension of narrative text. However, research on this respect needs pay more attention to be scrutinied. The aims of this research are to know and to describe the implementation of group work technique that improve students reading comprehension of narrative text. The problem raised in the research is about low scores of reading comprehension of narrative text gotten by eighth grade students of SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan. The number of students is 40. Instrument used in this research is observation, questionnaire, and test. The technique is used in collecting data in the research is qualitative data. The qualitative data consisted of observation within the physical activity in the classroom. Moreover, the questionnaire for student is made to support in collecting the data. In analyzing qualitative data, rating scale table is used to measure the observation of students’ activities during teaching learning process. Meanwhile, some statistical formula is used in analyzing the numerical data. The findings of this study are: 1. Related to the test result, there are 20% or 8 students passing KKM in pre action test, 47.5% or 21 students passing KKM in cycle 1 test and 80% or 32 students passing KKM in cycle 2. 2. Related to the observation result, the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom through group work technique. Furthermore, they could cooperative well with their group. It could be known that the students’ reading comprehension in term of narrative text has been improved and teacher was helped in finding the appropriate strategy in teaching reading narrative text
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spelling doaj-art-3ee10098ede54c32915fa7e453236e9d2025-01-12T00:47:51ZengEnglish Department of Antasari State Islamic UniversityLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal2086-96062549-24542017-05-016110.18592/let.v6i1.14401014FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUEAlek Alek0Yulianti Sari1Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, JakartSyarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, JakartInvestigation related to reading comprehension has been conducted by a number of researchers and even some of them focussing their research on reading conprehension of narrative text. However, research on this respect needs pay more attention to be scrutinied. The aims of this research are to know and to describe the implementation of group work technique that improve students reading comprehension of narrative text. The problem raised in the research is about low scores of reading comprehension of narrative text gotten by eighth grade students of SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan. The number of students is 40. Instrument used in this research is observation, questionnaire, and test. The technique is used in collecting data in the research is qualitative data. The qualitative data consisted of observation within the physical activity in the classroom. Moreover, the questionnaire for student is made to support in collecting the data. In analyzing qualitative data, rating scale table is used to measure the observation of students’ activities during teaching learning process. Meanwhile, some statistical formula is used in analyzing the numerical data. The findings of this study are: 1. Related to the test result, there are 20% or 8 students passing KKM in pre action test, 47.5% or 21 students passing KKM in cycle 1 test and 80% or 32 students passing KKM in cycle 2. 2. Related to the observation result, the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom through group work technique. Furthermore, they could cooperative well with their group. It could be known that the students’ reading comprehension in term of narrative text has been improved and teacher was helped in finding the appropriate strategy in teaching reading narrative texthttps://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1440Reading ComprehensionNarrative TextGroup Work Technique
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FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
Reading Comprehension
Narrative Text
Group Work Technique
title FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
title_full FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
title_fullStr FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
title_full_unstemmed FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
title_short FOSTERING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH GROUP WORK TECHNIQUE
title_sort fostering students reading comprehension of narrative text through group work technique
topic Reading Comprehension
Narrative Text
Group Work Technique
url https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/view/1440
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