THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION IN ENGLISH FOR THE TENTH GRADE OF SMAN 7 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Davva Firstya Pramanda, Intan Hamzah

Abstract


This research aims to find out whether teaching using authentic materials has an important impact on improving tenth-grade students' reading comprehension, especially descriptive texts, at SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung. This research is quantitative research with a one-group pre-test and post-test design. The research subjects were class X.7 students at SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung who were selected purposively. To collect data, a test was given using multiple-choice questions. The data obtained were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 27 which includes normality tests and hypothesis tests based on pre-test and post-test scores. The pre-test and post-test results show significant differences. In the pre-test, the average student score was 61.71 with the lowest score being 50.00 and the highest being 78.00. The post-test results showed an increase in the average student score to 88.51, with the lowest score being 76.00 and the highest being 100.00. From the pre-test and post-test significance table < 0.001. There is a significant difference in students' reading comprehension in the pre-test and post-test, therefore if the significance value is <0.05 or 0.001<0.05 then it can be stated that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected according to applicable regulations. Decision norms of paired sample t-tests. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant increase in the reading comprehension of tenth-grade students after being taught through authentic material.

Keywords: authentic material, descriptive text, reading comprehension


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