THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENSIVE READING ACTIVITY IN IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION(An Experimental Research at the Third Grade of MTs Daarunnadwah Kramatwatu Serang)
Daftar Isi:
- This reasearch is conducted at MTs Daarunnadwah Kramatwatu – Serang. The aim of this research is to know the influence of The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading Activity in Improving Reading Comprehension, in order to know how far students’ reading comprehension while the text reading material is Extensive reading. The problem that want to search for the solutions, are: how is the students’ in comprehending text? How is the aplication of extensive reading activity in reading learning? How is the effectiveness of extensive reading activity in improving reading comprehension? The purpose in this reasearch is developing students English especially in reading comptrehension skill. The method of this research is experimental research. The sample is 60 students of third grade at MTs Daarunnadwah Kramatwatu – Serang. The sample we divide in two kind of class, the control class and experiment class, that mean each class divide as sample for 30 students. The technique of data colecting by observation and test. The technique of data analyzing to find out how much is the value of to (t obsevation). The average score of control class, the students get 50,67 in reading comprehension pre-test and get 50,33 in reading comprehension post-test, and the students determine is –0,31 not increase. Meanwhile, the average score of experimental class, the students get 51,00 in reading comprehension pre-test and get 64,34 in reading comprehension post-test, and the students determine get increase 13,34. The result is to (t observation) is bigger than tt (t table) with the last counting 2,04 < 9,75 > 2,76, so the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejeted and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Finally the conclusion is that The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading Activity in Improving Reading Comprehension has significant influence fo increasing reading comprehension at the third grade of Daarunnadwah Kramatwatu – Serang.