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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION ... i
PREFACE ... ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... iii
ABSTRACT ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vi
LIST OF TABLES ... viii
LIST OF APPENDIX ... ix
Chapter I: Introduction 1.1Background of the Study ... 1
1.2Research Problems... 3
1.3Research Variable ... 4
1.4The Objectives of the Research ... 4
1.5Research Significance ... 5
1.6Hypothesis ... 5
1.7Definition of key terms ... 6
Chapter II: Review of Related Literature 2.1 The Nature of Reading ... 8
2.2 Reading Comprehension ... 10
2.3 Problems in Reading Comprehension ... 12
2.4 Strategies for Reading Comprehension ... 14
2.5 Teaching Reading Comprehension ... 15
2.6 Read-Aloud ... 17
2.7 Interactive Read-Aloud ... 19
2.8 Teaching Reading through Read-Aloud ... 20
2.9 Three Phases Technique in Teaching Reading ... 22
2.10 Previous Studies ... 23
Chapter III: Research Methodology 3.1 Research Design ... 26
3.2 Subject of the Study ... 28
3.3 Research Instruments ... 28
3.4 The techniques of Collecting Data ... 29
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3.5.1 Validity of the Test ... 30
3.5.2 Reliability of the Test ... 31
3.5.3 Test Items Difficulty ... 31
3.5.4 Test Items Discriminating Power ... 32
3.6 The Technique of Analyzing Data ... 32
3.7Research Procedures ... 33
3.8 The Schedule of the treatment ... 40
Chapter IV: Research Findings and Discussions 4.1 Description of Data from Test Scores ... 41
4.2 Data Presentation from Statistic Scores 4.2.1 The Calculation of Pretest Scores ... 42
4.2.1.1 The Test of Normality Distribution ... 42
4.2.1.2 The Test of Homogeneity ... 43
4.2.1.3Comparative Analysis of the pretest scores of the Experimental group and Control group ... 44
4.2.2 The Calculation Posttest Scores ... 47
4.2.2.1 The Test of Normality Distribution ... 47
4.2.2.2 The Test of Homogeneity ... 48
4.2.2.3Comparative Analysis of the posttest scores of Experimental group and Control group ... 50
4.2.3 Comparative analysis of pretest and posttest of experimental group ... 52
4.2.4 Comparative analysis of pretest and posttest of control group ... 54
4.2.5 Questionnaire ... 56
4.3 Discussion ... 61
4.3.1 The implementation of interactive read-aloud ... 61
4.3.2 Students responses toward the implementation of interactive read aloud ... 64
Chapter V:Conclusions and Recommendations 5.1 Conclusions ... 65
5.2 Recommendations... 66
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 67
iii Lists of tables
3.1 The treatment time table………. 37
4.1 The result of normality pretest score in experimental and control group………... 41 4.2 Homogeneity of pretest score in experimental and control group…. 43 4.3 The mean score of pretest score in experimental and control group.. 44
4.4 Independent t-test of pretest score in experimental and control group……….. 44 4.5 Test of normality posttest score in experimental and control group.. 46
4.6 Homogeneity of posttest score in experimental and control group.. 47
4.7 The mean score of posttest score in experimental and control group……….. 49 4.8 Independent t-test of posttest score in experimental and control group……….. 49 4.9 Paired samples statistic of experimental group……….. 50
4.10 Paired samples correlation of experimental group………. 50
4.11 Paired sample test of experimental group……….. 50
4.12 Paired samples statistic of control group……… 53
4.13 Paired samples correlation of control group……….. 53
4.14 Paired sample test of control group……… 53
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List of appendix
1 Anates of Try-out Score 71
2 Test of Reliability of Try-out Score 74
3 Score of High Group 75
4 Score of Low Group 77
5 Discriminating Power 78
6 Level of Difficulty 79
7 Distracter Quality 80
8 Lesson Plan 81
9 Reading Comprehension Test 89
10 Result of pretest and Posttest of control group 96
11 Result of pretest and Posttest of experimental group 97
12 Result of Questionnaire Score 98
13 Result of normality distribution pretest of experimental and control group
100
14 Result of homogeneity variance of pretest of experimental and control group
101
15 The analysis pretest of experimental and control group 102
16 Result of normality distribution posttest of experimental and control group
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17 Result of homogeneity variance of posttest of experimental and control group
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18 The analysis posttest of experimental and control group 105 19 The analysis of pretest and posttest of experimental group 106
