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…

In this research, the writer investigated whether there is any correlation between students' vocabulary mastery and cognitive style toward their reading comprehension. the writer found that the students had difficulties to comprehend the reading text. Then, the writer analyzed that they have lack of vocabulary mastery and different cognitive style. This research was held in SMP Remaja Pluit Jak…

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 objective of this research is to investigate the influence of the use of e-learning and student's learning motivation on students' reading comprehension achievement. This research was conducted at SMAN 82 (public senior high school) Jakarta from April 12- May 3 2011. There were 48 out of 240 students of grade X in school year 2010-2011 were chosen as samples by using purposive sampling tech…

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 …