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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
of the Study
Language is one of the most
important things in communication and it is used as a toll of communication
among the nations in all over the world. As an international language, English
is very important and has many interrelationships with various aspects of life
owned by human being. In Indonesia, English considered as the first foreign
language and taught formally from elementary school up to the university level.
In
English, there are four skills that should be mastered, they are: listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. The reading skill became very important in the
education field, students need to be exercised and trained in order to have a
good reading skill.
Reading
is also something crucial and indispensable for the students because the
success of their study depends on the greater part of their ability to read. If
their reading skill is poor they are very likely to fail in their study or at
least they will have difficulty in making progress. On the other hand, if they
have a good ability in reading, they will have a better chance to succeed in
their study.
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Based on the explanation above, the
writer is interested in finding out the effects of treatment with
pre-questioning and without pre-questioning on students’ reading comprehension
achievement and concluded that the pre-questioning consist of some questions
provided before the students read the whole text. It tends to build the
students’ interest and motivation to read the text.
1.2 Problem
of the Study
Based on the background of study above, the problem of the study is as
follows:
1.
What is the effect of treatment with pre-questioning on
the Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Second Grade Students of IPS
classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in Academic year 2006/2007?”
2.
What is the effect of the student’s gender on the
reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes
at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007?
3.
What is the effect of treatments and student’s gender
on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS
classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007?
1.3 The
Objective of the Study
The objectives of the study are:
1.
To find out the effect of treatment with
pre-questioning on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade
student of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
2.
To find out the effect of the student’s gender on the
reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes
of SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007
3.
To find out the interaction effect between treatment
and student’s gender on the reading comprehension achievement of the second
grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic
year 2006/2007.
1.4 Assumptions
In relation to the study, the writer states some assumptions as follows:
1.
Pre-questioning can help the students to comprehend the
reading text.
2.
The students have been taught about how to identify the
main idea and supporting
details of a paragraph and how to recognize kinds of text.
1.5 Hypothesis
The hypotheses of this study can be mastered alternative and null
hypotheses. The hypotheses are, as follows:
1. Ha: There is
significant effect of treatment with pre-questioning and without
pre-questioning on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade
students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
Ho: There is no significant effect of treatment
with pre-questioning and without pre-questioning on the reading comprehension
achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya
Palangkaraya.
2. Ha: There is significant effect of the student’s gender on
the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS
classes of SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
Ho: There
is no significant effect of the student’s gender on the reading comprehension
achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes of SMAN-2 Jekan Raya
Palangkaraya.
3. Ha: There is significant effect of treatments with
pre-questioning, without pre-questioning and student’s gender on the reading
comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2
Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
Ho: There is no significant effect of treatments
with pre-questioning, without pre-questioning and student’s gender on the
reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes
at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
1.6 Delimitation
of the Study
In this study, the writer delimits the study only to meet the effect of
treatments (with pre-questioning, without pre-questioning) and students’ gender
on the reading comprehension achievement of second grade students of IPS
classes at SMA N-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007.
1.7 Limitation Of The Study
In this study, the writer only focuses the
effects of treatment (with pre-questioning, without pre-questioning) and
student’s gender on the students’ reading comprehension. It is conducted only
for the second grade student of IPS classes of SMUN-2 Jekan Raya in Academic
year 2006/2007.Thus, the result of this study only generalized or applied to
the target population, specifically to the Second Grade Students of IPS classes
of SMAN-2 Jekan Raya in Kodya Palangkaraya.
1.8 Significance of the Study
The study is expected to be significance as follows:
1. Giving
a description about the effects of treatment with pre-questioning and without
pre-questioning on the students’ reading comprehension achievement.
2. To
prove the result in reading comprehension scores between experimental and
control classes of students’ gender (female and male) on the second grade
students of IPS classes at SMA Negeri 2 Jekan Raya are different.
3. Giving
a reference to development of teaching learning process especially in reading,
that pre-questioning can make the students’ reading comprehension will be
better.
4. Giving
a contribution to the students how to improve their skill in comprehending
about the reading text.
5. Giving
a profitable description to any further researcher which wants to study the
same case, so this study becomes a helpful information and useful reference for
the next study.
1.9 Clarification
of Key Terms
There are some terms in this study that should be
clarified, as follows:
Pre-questioning
Some
questions which are provided before the students read the whole text, in order
to build the reading schemata and background knowledge of the students and also
to rise their interest, and their cognitive aspect to predict what will faced
by them in the next whole text.
Reading
Comprehension
Theoretically, reading comprehension is a process of
interaction between the reader with the text and the reader relates the idea
from the text to prior experiences and their knowledge. In other words,
comprehension is a process by which the reader constructs meaning by
interacting with the text.
In
this study, reading comprehension achievement operationally defined as the
students’ scores in comprehending the text on the reading comprehension tests,
after having and without having the pre-questioning.
SMAN-2
Jekan Raya
It is
clearly stated on the research problem that the SMAN-2 Jekan Raya is the
location or site of the research.
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