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B. Discussion
2. The Improvement of Students’ Reading Comprehension in Term Conclusion
According to Labaree (2009), the conclusion is intended to help the reader understand why you research should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper. In helping students build the reading comprehension and reading ability, quora application as a media are needed. Based on the previous discussion and the results that have been obtained by researchers show that quora application is one of the media that can be improve students’
reading comprehension.
The level of students' reading ability was not only measured from the aspect of main idea but also measured in terms of conclusion. Students reading comprehension in term conclusion was viewed from the diversity of 45
students’ reading comprehension was different. The conclusion in the article includes the students’ comprehension when the students’ read the article.
Judging from the results of pre-test and post-test students in terms of conclusion, the ability of students in reading comprehension has increased in terms of conclusion which results show that the post-test is higher than the pre-test results.
The implementation of quora application as a media in reading ability could be improve the students’ reading comprehension in term conclusion.
The result showed that in conclusion, the students’ score in pre-test was classified as very poor is nineteen students. Based on these results it could be seen that the highest score obtained by students is 9.6-10 obtained by 0 student (0%), the sample that gets a score of 8.6-9.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), then who gets a score of 7.6-8.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), who get a score of 6.6- 7.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), who get a score of 5.6-6.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), who gets a score of 3.6-5.5 amounted to 11 students (36.67%), and who gets 0.0-3.5 amounted to 19 students (63.33%). It means that the students' scores and percentages in the pre-test were still low because half of the students got not fluent scores. It means that the students’ scores and percentages in the pre-test were still low because half of the students got not fluent scores.
In the post test, the researcher presented the result of percentage of students’ score in reading comprehension in term conclusion after using quora
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application as a media in teaching. This studied involved thirty students was conducted at the eleventh grade of students of SMA Negeri 2 Takalar.
Based on these results it could be seen that the highest score obtained by students is 9.6-10 obtained by 0 student (0%), the sample that gets a score of 8.6-9.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), then who gets a score of 7.6-8.5 amounted to 2 students (6.67%), who get a score of 6.6-7.5 obtained by 0 student (0%), who get a score of 5.6-6.5 amounted to 5 students (16.67%), who gets a score of 3.6-5.5 amounted to 23 students (76.67%), and who gets 0.0-3.5 obtained by 0 student (0%). It means that the students’ scores and percentages in the post-test were slightly enhanced because half of the students got the good score. So, it could be conclude that there were improvement in students’
reading comprehension after did the treatment using quora application as a media in learning process.
Mean score of students’ reading comprehension in reading ability in term of conclusion showed that the students’ score enhanced after using quora application as a media in teaching and learning process. It was provided by comparing students’ score in pre-test and post-test. The students for conclusion in pre-test was 2.73 score and the score of students in post-test was 4.6 and the percentage of improvement between pre-test and post-test was 68.4%. It means that, using quora application as a media it was effective to improve students’ reading skill especially in reading comprehension.
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process by using quora application as a media. It was because the students had learned and practice their reading skill throught quora application in the classroom and it was helped them to be easy when they would read. Therefore, it could be conclude that using quora application as a media at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 2 Takalar was effective to improved the students’
reading skill especially in reading comprehension.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS A. Conclusions
Based on the result of data analysis and the discussion of the result in the previous chapter, the researcher concludes that, the students’ reading comprehension of SMA Negeri 2 Takalar in academic year of 2018/2019 in term of main idea are improved after applying quora application as a media, it is proved by the mean score of pre-test was 3.06 and the mean score of post- test was 5.4. The students’ reading comprehension of SMA Negeri 2 Takalar in academic year of 2018/2019 in term of conclusion are improved after using quora application as a media, it is proved by the mean score of pre-test was 2.73 and the mean score of post-test was 4.6.
Quora application as a media had the important thing for the students.
Using quora application as a media is effective in English learning process especially in reading skill. from the research show that quora application is effectiveness to apply. It proved by the data of t-test main idea were greater than t-table (2.39>1.699) and t-test of conclusion were greater than t-table (9.84>1.699).