The objectives of this research are to investigate whether: 1) there is any significant effect of KWL strategy on improving the students‟ reading comprehension, 2) there is any significant effect of Jigsaw strategy on improving the students‟ reading comprehension, 3) there is any significant difference between students who are taught through KWL and Jigsaw Reading Strategies. This r…

Currently, the students, especially students in Junior high school level must deal with many kinds of text. One kind of texst that must be learned through a meaningful activity. One kind of the activites is by reading comics. This study was aimed at implementing the Extensive Reading Using Reading Teenager comics to Improve Students’ Reading Ccomprehension and finding what activities suitable…

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether: (1) There is significant improvement toward the student after KWL (Know-Want to know-Learn) strategy is implemented, (2) There is significant improvement toward the students after QAR (Question and Answer Relationship) is implemented, (3) There is significant different between KWL reading strategy and QAR reading strategy in improving stud…

The study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Group Work in reading comprehension, think-pair- share (TPS) and talking chips (TC). Another aim is to find out which one is better in the reading class whether TPS class and TC class through group work. The research was carried out in the comparative study, and it involved one experiment class and one comparison class at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu…

The research was conducted to identify the students’ strategies in reading analytical exposition text and to pinpoint the students’ reading strategies when they apply cognitive academic language learning approach (CALLA) instructional reading strategies in reading analytical exposition text. The research used qualitative approach which involved the case study method. The participants whom w…

By interviewing four students at the eleventh grade in SMAN 1 Air Naningan, the researcher found that the students face some problems when reading English texts. The problems found were important to be investigated because students’ reading comprehension play an essential part to improve their English ability from reading text. The objectives of this research were to (1) investigate the sig…

There are three objectives in this thesis. It sets out to reveal, firstly, the implementation of utilizing iPad in teaching EFL reading comprehension at AMIK/STMIK Raharja Cikokol Tangerang, secondly, the benefits gained by teachers and students in implementing it, and thirdly the challenges faced by them when employing it. This research is a case study research which involves qualitative data…

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the washback effect on students’ learning and how the washback effect on students’ motivation. Two main aspects were studied: students’ perception of the exam (attitude, content, methodology, course and preparation) and student perceived to their motivation. To address these issues, a mixed methods approach was utilized. Descriptive and fre…

The present study examines the influence of students’ vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge on their reading comprehension ability of the year twelve students of Public Vocational High School 2 Rangkasbitung. The population of this study is all the twelve year students at accounting program which consists of 146 students distributed in four classes and 53 students are chosen as samp…

The research focused on developing students' reading comprehension by using extensive reading. This study was conducted to identify the development of students' reading comprehension by using extensive reading. It was used to solve the students' problem in learning to read. This research applied principal of qualitative method. The participants are 10th grade students at SMA Al-Husna Tangerang …