The purpose of this research is to analyze students’ barriers in reading comprehension in their classroom. Specifically, this research tries to answer the questions “What barriers do the students encounter in comprehending English texts? Why did they find those as barriers? And, what strategies do they use to overcome those barriers? In this research, the data was gathered by doing the c…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade VIII students who are taught by using Collaborative Reading Strategy; (2) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade VIII students who are taught by using Reciprocal Reading Strategy; (3) wheth…

The purpose of this study to prove whether there is correlation of language components (grammar and vocabulary) mastery and students' background knowledge to their reading comprehension at Islamic senior high school of Mathla'ul Falah Lempuyang Serang Banten. The researcher used the quantitative method in this study through simple and multiple regressions. The data were collected through langua…

This research is carried out to see the improvement of students' reading comprehension using technique of vocabulary pre-teaching and game. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 19 Kabupaten Tangerang lasted from March 1 to 29, 2011. Experimental design with quantitative calculation is chosen as design of the research to obtain the research objectives. Two sets of reading test were selected…

This research is conducted to exhibiti the concept of the semantic mapping strategy in reading activity as well as its application in reading strategy at SMP YASPORBI Jakarta. The research took place at SMP YASPORBI and lasted for one month in January 2011. The research was designed as research method to achieve the objectives. Qualitative calculation was used for the data analysis while som…

The main focused of the thesis was to analyze and study the effectiveness competence, autonomy and relatedness (CAR) teaching model in enhancing students' reading comprehension. In this case, CAR teaching model was compared with contextual teaching learning. To analyze the result, 29 and 31 samples from two experimental classes were chosen out of 157 students of first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Pabu…

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is any significant effects of the use cognitive and metacognitive strategies on the UNINDRA'S students reading comprehension. a quantitative analysis that covered inferential analysis (multiple regression) test was conducted to answer the question raised in the study. The participants of this study were the third semester students of Engli…

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effectiveness of skimming method and magic speed reading software to improve students' reading comprehension achievement. The researcher used cluster random sampling and took samples in two experimental class was chosen out of 164 students of fifth semester of IAIN "Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin" Banten. The first class as control group which is has …

This study intends to analyze the effect of collaborative strategic reading (CSR) and survey, question, read, recite, and review (SQ3R) on students' reading comprehension improvement. This research attempts to find out how influential CSR and SQ3R are in boosting the students' reading comprehension. The study also tries to find out whether CSR more effective than SQ3R in improving students' re…

The study focus or investigated a comparative study of reading comprehensive achievement between students taught by LPTK/ educational training institution teachers and non LPTK/ educational training institution teachers. in order to know their differences the research had to discover the previous progress of the students on reading comprehension and they we compared in order to find out the ach…