THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT : A Quasi Experimental Study at One Private School in Bandung.

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THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY

IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT

(A Quasi Experimental Study at One Private School in Bandung)

A Research Paper

Submitted to English Education Department as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for

Sarjana Pendidikan degree

By:

Riska Inggriana Setiadi

0704608

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION

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THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY

IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT

(A Quasi Experimental Study at One Private School in Bandung)

Oleh

Riska Inggriana Setiadi

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Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Oktober 2013

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THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT

(A Quasi Experimental Study at One of Non-Public Schools in Bandung)

By

Riska Inggriana Setiadi 0704608

Approved by

Supervisor I Supervisor II

Dr. Dadang Sudana, M.A. Riesky, S.Pd., M.Ed. NIP.195901121985032001 NIP.198105252005011002

Head of English Education Department Faculty of Language and Arts Education

Indonesia University of Education

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ABSTRACT

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Reading is a part of human life. In daily activities, people deals with it, such as reading a brochures, reading letters, reading newspapers and reading short messages and so on. It is very useful in different ways and for various purposes. As it is inseparable from people’s life, it is important to master reading skill.

Reading deals with written language which is different from spoken language. Therefore, the sill of reading cannot be mastered by natures as speaking or listening skill. Cameron (2001) stated that reading requires individual’s specific skills and knowledge about how written language operates on text. Hence, reading skill needs to be taught explicitly.

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Besides, students may be able to complete their reading assignment but they are not aware that they had problems understanding to text (Ozckus, 2003).

Results finding shows that teaching reading comprehension to students is not an easy task for teachers. The difficulty are due to large class size, limited reading strategies, and lack of consideration in applying the suitable strategy in teaching process (Yoosabai, 2009). The teacher usually explains everything to students by translating each sentence or word by word rather than helping students read by promoting thinking about the meaning (Panmanee, 2009). The technique seems to lead the students to think that reading is tiring and boring since it forces the students to deal with the meaning of each word. Another unproductive teaching strategy which commonly appeared is asking students to read aloud sentence by sentence or each section and then answers the questions given. Essentially, English teachers can present the reading material better and meet all learners’ needs if they can teach the students by using an interactive way.

In order to encourage students to read interactively and develop their reading comprehension, teachers need to find an effective exercise for students by using different reading strategies for different purposes (Panmanee, 2009). One of popular strategy that can improve students’ reading comprehension is Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) (Stauffer, 1969).

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discussion of each section of the text. Meanwhile, Students are responsible for establishing their own purposes for reading, generating prediction, and verifying or revising predictions during the discussion of each section. In addition, Stauffer recommends using DRTA with narrative or non-narrative text at all grade levels.

Considering the explanation above, this study is conducted to find out whether the use of DRTA in teaching reading narrative text can be an effective technique, especially for tenth grade of senior high school. Narrative text is chosen because it is commonly read by senior high school students. It is hoped that this study can be one of references for English teachers to teach reading in interesting and enjoyable ways in order to motivate the students to read.

1.1Statements of the Problem

This study is conducted to answer these following questions:

1. Is the use of Direct Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) effective in teaching reading narrative text?

2. What is the students’ perception toward the use of DRTA method in teaching reading narrative text?

1.3 Aims of the Study

Based on the questions formulated above, the aims of the study are:

1. To find out whether teaching reading narrative text using DRTA

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2. To investigate the students’ perception toward the implementation of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) technique in teaching reading narrative text.

1.4 Scope of the Study

This study focuses on teaching reading by using Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) technique at the first year in SMA in Bandung. Dealing with reading skills, the researcher focuses on reading narrative text since it is one of the text types that must be learnt by tenth grade students of Senior High School (Model Syllabus and RPP, 2007). While for comparison, the whole class lecturing method is given in the control group.

1.5 Significance of the Study

This study is expected to make contributions to the improvement of teaching and learning English in Indonesia, particularly in senior high school.

This study is also expected to enhance students’ and teachers’ knowledge related

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1.6 Clarification of Key Terms:

To avoid misconception and misunderstanding, several terms are clarified. Those are:

a. The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a comprehension strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions (Stauffer, 1969).

b. Reading is an activity in combining words into idea to get new information of the whole text (Spache, 1964).

c. Reading Comprehension is building construction process while reading text (Harris &hodges, 2005).

d. Narrative text is a piece of writing which has purpose to entertain, it also deals with problematic events that leads to crisis and turning point (Gerrot&Wignell, 1994).

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1.7 Organization of the Paper

This paper will be presented in five chapters. The chapter will be subdivided into subtopics that will elaborate the issue given. Chapter I discusses the background of the study, statement of problems, aims of the study, the scope of the study, the significance of the study, clarification of key terms and organization of the paper. Chapter II provides the theoretical foundation of the study. The theory discussed include reading, reading comprehension, teaching reading, DRTA, narrative text, students’ perception and previous related studies. Chapter

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CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents research methodology employed in this study, as an attempt to find the answer to the following issues, namely if the use of Direct Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) effective in teaching reading narrative text, and the students’ perception toward the use of DRTA method in teaching reading narrative text. In general, it covers Research Design, Population and Sample, also Data Collection and Analysis.

3.1 Research Design

This study used a quantitative method and applied a quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control group. Hatch and Farhady (1982) state that non-equivalent control group design means that there are two groups in the study, namely experimental and control groups. In this case, both groups were in the same grade level but used a different set of teaching in the teaching and learning process. Narrative text was used as the materials in teaching and learning process. Each group was taught how to read narrative texts, yet the experimental group applied some treatments to find out the answers of research questions. Meanwhile control group was taught through the conventional method, which is the whole class lecturing method.

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difference between the experimental group and control group. The research design of the study will be illustrated in the following table:

Table 3.1

The Quasi-Experimental Design

Group Pre-test Treatment Post-test

Experimental Xe 1 T Xe2

Control Xb 1 O Xb 2

Xe 1 : Students’ reading scores of the experimental group on pre-test Xb 1 : Students’ reading scores of the control group on pre-test T : Treatment uses DRTA

O : No treatment

Xe 2 : Students’ reading scores of the experimental group on post-test Xb 2 : Students’ reading score of the control group on post-test

Furthermore, this study tested two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is null hypothesis (Ho) which states that there is no significant different in total mean score between the experimental group and control group. The notation of the null hypothesis is as follows:

Ho :

µ

1 =

µ

2

Ho : Alternative hypothesis

µ

1 : Experimental group

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The second hypothesis is an alternative hypothesis (Ha) which states that

there is a significant difference in total mean score between experimental and control groups. The notation of alternative hypothesis is as follows:

Ha :

µ

1 ≠

µ

2

Ha : Alternative hypothesis

µ

1 : Experimental group

µ

2 : Control group

3.2 Population and Sample

The population of this study was the tenth grades students of a private Senior High School in Bandung. The school was chosen due to an easier accesses to the writer to conduct the study in this school. Moreover, the sample was selected by using persuasive sampling in which the sample is not randomly selected. This study only used two classes as the sample of the study. The first class, XB was the experimental group and the other, XE was the control group. Each group consists of 25 students. To anticipate the absence of some students during the research, there were only 20 students from each class as the sample. Therefore, the settle number of the sample are 40 students.

3.3 Data Collection and Analysis

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to both experimental and control groups in order to find the initial ability between the two groups.

After lesson plans were organized, DRTA in teaching reading narrative text was applied to experimental group students and teaching reading narrative text with conventional method (whole-class lecturing) was applied to control group. At the end of experimental treatment, post-test was administered to both control and experimental groups in order to find out the result of the treatment. Furthermore, to answer the second research question, a questionnaire was administered to the experimental group in order to gather further information on students’ perception toward the implementation of DRTA in teaching narrative

text.

3.3.1 Data Collection

The data collection involved two instruments, namely reading test and questionnaire.

3.3.1.1 Reading Test

Research instruments are the tools which are used to measure something that we observe in order to obtain the data and answer the research problems (Sugiono, 2011). The instruments that were used in this study are pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire.

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who had a similar level of reading. Moreover, a post-test was implied in the last program of the research. After conducting several treatments, researcher administered the post-test to both experimental and control groups. This post-test was given to find out whether or not there are any difference between those groups as a result of some treatment given. All items of reading test were the same as those of the pre-test. It consisted of thirty multiple choice questions. It was composed based on standards in Indonesian curriculum of English teaching, as explained in the following tables:

Table 3.2

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Table 3.3

Material Content of Multiple Choices Questions

No Number of Questions Learning Material

Pre-test Post-test

1 2,5,7,11,15 1,5,22,25,27 Identifying the generic structure 2 4,9,10,12,13,23,24,

25,26,27,28,29,30

2,3,13,14,15,16,17, 18,19,20,24,29,30

Identifying contents of the text

3 1,3,6,8,14,16,17,18, 19,20,21,22

4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12, 21,23,26,28

Language features

However, the pilot test had to be administered before conducting pre-test and post-test to the experimental and control groups in order to find whether the instruments were appropriate to be used in pre-test and post-test by discovering the value of validity, index of difficulty, reliability, and discrimination index. The pilot test was conducted in another class that did not belong to the control and experimental groups.

3.3.1.2 Questionnaire

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people at the same time, while the disadvantages are the unclear or ambiguous questionnaire cannot be clarified, and the respondents have no chance to expand or react verbally to particular questions (Conoley and Kramer, 1989).

The questionnaire was distributed in the experimental group after both control and experimental groups had finished their post-test. The closed questionnaire was used in order to provide consistency of response across the students and generally easier to use and analyzed related to the objectives of the study (Nunan, 1992). The questionnaire was conducted to find out the students’ perceptions toward the use of DRTA in teaching reading narrative text. The questionnaire consisted of 7 questions with the following categories:

Table 3.4

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punishment is a formula that has no minus system of score to the students’ in

correct answers (Arikunto, 2006). The formula of scoring technique is stated as follows:

S = R

S = Score R = Right

3.3.2.2 Pilot Test

The pilot test was conducted to find out whether or not the instrument was valid and reliable. In other words, it was to see if the test was appropriate to use or not. Furthermore, results of pilot test are attached in Appendix C.

3.3.2.3 Validity Test

The validity test was used to see whether the test was valid or not to be used in pre-test and post-test. According to Fraenkel and Wallen (2006), validity refers to appropriateness, meaningfulness, correctness and usefulness of the inferences a researcher makes.

Pearson’s Product Moment was applied to test the validity. The data can

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3.3.2.4 Difficulty Test (Item Facility)

This test was done to measure how far the test item relevant to the participants’ ability; whether the test items were too easy or too difficult for the

participant. According to Heaton (1955) in order to find out how easy or difficult certain items established in the test, it can be analyzed using item difficulty index or facility value.

Therefore, items with facility value around 0.50 were considered to be ideal, with an acceptable range being from around 0.30 to 0.70.

The following is the formula of difficulty index:

FV = Facility/ Index of difficulty R = The number of correct answers

N = The number of students taking the test

3.3.2.5 Discrimination Test

Arikunto (2006) states that discrimination index is used to indicate how far a single test item can differentiate the upper group from the lower group of the class. The procedures to find the discrimination index are: (1) Arranging the students’ total scores and dividing the scores into two groups of equal size (the top

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upper group and the proportion passing the lower group, and (4) Dividing the difference by the total number of students in one group.

The following formula is used to calculate the discrimination index of an item:

√

rpbi = point biserial correlation

Xp = mean score on the test for those who get the item correct Xq = mean score on the test for those who get the item incorrectly Sx = standard deviation of test scores

p = the proportion of test takers who get the item correct (facility value) q = the proportion of test takers who get the item incorrectly.

3.3.2.6 Reliability Test

Fraenkel & Wallen (1990) state that reliability refers to the consistency of the scores obtained from one administration of an instrument to another and from one set items to another. To test the reliability of the instrument, Alpha Cronbach in SPSS 16.0 for Windows was performed. Then it was interpreted based on the following categorization:

3.3.2.7 Pre-test Data Analysis

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were collected through pre-test and post-test computed one by one using SPSS 16.0 for Windows.

The steps taken in analyzing pre-test and post-test were: normal distribution test, homogeneity variance, and independent t-test. The details of statistical procedures are as follows:

3.3.2.8 Normality of Distribution Test

A Normality test was conducted to ensure that the students’ scores were normally distributed, it was computed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in SPSS 16 for Windows. Before the test, the null hypothesis was established; Ho: the data taken from samples which are distributed normally. The level of significance then was set at 0.05.

3.3.2.9 Variance Homogeneity Test

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3.3.2.10 Independent t-Test

Lastly, the data taken from pre-test were analyzed using independent t-test to ensure that the score of the two groups (experimental and control group) were not significantly different. It was also intended to ensure that the two groups had equal ability and could be used as samples in this research.

The null hypothesis was Ho = there is no significant different between experimental and control mean scores on pre-test (Experimental Group = Control Group). With the level of significance of 0.05, the computation of independent t-test was then conducted using SPSS 16 for Windows.

3.3.2.11 Post-test Data Analysis

The post-test data analysis was quite the same as the pre-test data analysis. The primary distinction lied on the purpose. The purpose of the pre-test was simply to see both groups’ difference prior to the treatment while the purpose of the post-test was to see whether the treatment made any significant difference in students’ achievement. Another distinction was that there was no effect size

calculation in pre-test but it was employed in the post-test to see how effective the treatment was. The analysis of post-test are elaborated in the next chapter.

3.3.2.12 Effect Size

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score is. According to Collidge (2000), effect size refers to the effect of the influence of independent variable upon the dependent variable. The formulation effect size can be seen as follows:

√

Where:

r = effect size t = t- test value

dƒ = degree of freedom (the amount of samples minus 2. dƒ = N1+N2-2)

The value of effect size will be interpreted to the following scale: Table 3.5

Scale of Effect Size

Effect Size r Value

Small .100

Medium .243

Large .371

3.3.2.13 Dependent t-Test

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3.3.2.14 Questionnaire Data Analysis

This study used a set of questions in order to answer students’ perception toward the use of DRTA technique in reading narrative text. In constructing each question in the questionnaire, it is important to determine the data that should be gathered related to the objective of the study (Nunan, 1992). Thus, the questionnaire items were divided into two parts based on students’ feelings and thoughts toward the used of DRTA in teaching narrative text.

Data from the questionnaire were analyzed based the frequency of the students’ answers and their impressions of the application of DRTA were

interpreted as well in chapter IV. The results of the questionnaire are put into the percentage below:

In which:

P = percentage

ƒo = frequency of observed

n = number of samples

Table 3.6 Criteria of Percentage Percentage of

respondents Criteria

1-25 % Small number of the students 26-49 % Nearly half of the students

50 % Half of the students

51-75 % More than half of the students 76-99% Almost all of the students

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This chapter concludes the present study and offers some suggestions. The conclusion are provided to address the problems of the study which are formulated on the problems of the study. The suggestions are made based on the result of the study and corresponding discussion.

5.1 Conclusions

After analyzing the whole data, this study came up with several conclusions that cover: (1) DRTA is effective in teaching reading narrative text; (2) by using DRTA, students are more active in reading class since they have their prior knowledge; and (3) students are motivated to read more by the application of DRTA.

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5.2 Suggestions

Suggestions are directed to teachers and future researchers. Teachers are recommended to use the DRTA to teach reading narrative texts. However, DRTA could also be considered to be carried out in teaching other subjects such as history, Indonesian language, and so on. It can be one alternative technique for teaching students at different levels of schooling such as primarily school or junior high school. Lastly, it is recommended that teachers pay more attention to students who are passive when making predictions during reading activities.

For further researches, the weaknesses of this study could be their reason to conduct a better research. Firstly, they may study the same topic in different research designs to know whether or not the use of DRTA is effective in

improving students’ abilities in other subjects. Secondly, they may also conduct

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THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT : A Quasi Experimental Study at One Private School in Bandung.

THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY

IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT

By:

Riska Inggriana Setiadi

0704608

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION

THE USE OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY

IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT

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