These all resulted in low performance and caused failures in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a significant effect of using Google Classroom as a blended learning media integrated with an inference strategy for students. The findings of this study showed that there was a significant effect of using Google Classroom as a blended learning media integrated with a student inference strategy. Therefore, to find out how effective the use of Google Classroom, integrated with the inference strategy is in improving students' reading skills, the researcher will conduct a study titled 'The Effect of Google Classroom as Mixed Learning Media, Integrated with the inference strategy'.
Problem Statement
Research Question
Limitation of Problem
Objective of the Research
Significance of the Research 1. Theoritically
Operational Definitions
Blended learning is a mix or combination of online learning, offline learning and face-to-face learning. In offline learning, students can complete the learning sequence even though it is not connected to the Internet through the application program. Blended Learning media refers to the application program used in offline and online learning.
Hypothesis
One of the most difficult problems that hinder students' reading comprehension is unfamiliar/new words or lack of vocabulary. As Langan (1986) stated, there are many things that could help students such as: (1) guess the meaning of the surrounding text (2) the way the word is formed (3) the students' background knowledge of the subject. 6) self-control. Based on the results of a research by Sukmawati and Nensie (2019), who found that students who used google classroom felt enthusiastic about online learning.
The result of this research showed that there is a significant difference in students' reading comprehension of students who are taught using the inference strategy and those who are not at the 0.014 level of significance. However, the differences between this current research and previous research are the research object and the teaching tool used in this research.
Population and Sample 1. Population
The sample of this research is class X1 and X2 as both classes had similar reading skills in the middle test results from the English teacher who taught English in SMAN 6 Bengkulu Selatan. This was proven by the reading tools that both classes were almost similar, moreover the English teacher also said that both classes had problems in reading comprehension, especially in answering inference questions.
Research Instrument
School level always in the form of multiple choice questions and there were twenty-five questions for pre-test (experiment and control) and twenty-five questions for post-test (experiment and control) adapted from English textbook for class X published in 2014. The instrument was first tested to find out the validity and reliability of the test questions (see Appendix 1&2). The level of difficulty between pre-test and post-test is similar, as the researcher constructed the reading questions at the same level for pre-test and post-test.
Technique for Collecting Data
The step before the application of inference strategy in doing research, the researcher administered a pretest to the experimental and control group to know the students' reading ability. This phase was handled by the researcher as a teacher in the treatment. As the researcher in this research divided the classes into two - experimental class and control class, the treatment for the two classes is different from each other. The treatment used in the experimental class is that of using inference strategy through Google Classroom.
Meanwhile, the treatment used in the control class is that by using direct teaching strategy. The treatment was carried out in eight meetings which is similar to the research done by Sugiar (2013). The step towards the application of inference strategy in doing research, the researcher gave post-test to the experimental and control group to know the students' ability to read after giving treatment.
In this research, the test was administered in multiple choice form. Conducting the post-test is important for obtaining data or scoring students after receiving the treatment. Furthermore, the planning of the research activity in both the Control and Experiment classrooms can be seen as follows.
Data Collecting Technique
To know whether the data is normally distributed or not, the value α = 0.05 is used as the standard. H0: The pre-treatment variances are equal H1: The pre-treatment variances are not equal b.
Validity and Reliability 1.Validity
Normality and Homogeneity Test a. Normality Test
Since the significance value (0.482) was higher than 0.05, it could be concluded that the data obtained was considered normal. If the data is normal, it means that the data was suitable to be analyzed using Independent Sample T-test Analysis. The result of the data homogeneity test is described on the following pages.
Since the significance value (0.743) was higher than 0.05, it could be concluded that the obtained data were considered normal. But before the data were analyzed by independent sample t-test analysis, the data had to be homogenous first. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov post-test in the control group showed that the characteristic was 0.424.
Since the significance value (0.424) was higher than 0.05, it could be concluded that the obtained data were considered normal. But before the data were analyzed using independent t-test analysis, the data had to be homogenous first. Since the significance value (0.102) was higher than 0.05, it could be concluded that the obtained data were considered normal.
Since the data were normally distributed and homogeneous, the researcher conducted an independent sample t-test analysis test to test the hypothesis.
Hypothesis Testing using Independent Sample t-test
In other words, distraction strategy using Google Classroom is effective in improving students' reading comprehension. Regarding graph 1, the students' reading ability mean score on pre-test between control and experiment group was slightly similar with 66.24 for control class and 66.18 for experiment class. In the post-test, however, the reading score of experimental class was higher than control class with 67.09 for control class and 75.75 for experimental class.
Therefore, there were no significant differences in the mean number of post-treatment students in the control class, while there was a significant difference in the mean reading scores of the post-treatment students in the experimental class. Google Classroom as a blended learning media integrated with a reasoning strategy to improve students' reading skills.
Discussion
Moreover, the use of inference strategy can push the students to examine their priorities in reading a text, especially for literal comprehension. As Zweirs (2005) states that making inferences is often described as making a logical guess or "reading between the lines". When readers infer they are personally engaged with the text, more of the author's purpose and process them to deeper meaning.
Google Classroom aims to help teachers manage the creation and collection of students' assignments using Google Docs, Google Drive and other applications so that it supports a paperless environment (Iftakhar, 2016). This study attempted to reveal whether there is a significant difference in the students' reading comprehension of the eighth grade students who are taught with the help of distraction strategy and those who are not, in the academic year of 2016/2017. This means that the use of inference strategy has a significant effect on the students' reading comprehension.
In general, they were successful in interpreting the thesis statement, the gist of the section, the meaning of the tested words and clause. However, they were less able to infer the underlying argument, the tone of the article and the attitudes of others towards it. Based on the finding of this research, the conclusion of this research mentioned that there was a significant effect of using Google Classroom as mixed learning media integrated with inference strategy to improve students'.
The improvement in students' reading scores after the treatment using inference strategy may be due to some reasons, such as by using inference strategy, students used their prior knowledge about a topic and the information they have gathered so far in the text to make predictions about what might happen then, when students derive the text, they personally engaged with the text, the author's purpose, and the processing for a deeper meaning.
Suggestion
Based on the findings of this study, the conclusion of this study stated that there was a significant effect of using Google Classroom as a blended learning media integrated with inference strategy to improve students' performance. reading skills in grade X of SMAN 6 Bengkulu Selatan. More studies with EFL readers should be conducted to further investigate the effectiveness of Google Classroom as a blended learning media integrated with inference strategy for reading comprehension. The correlation between students' performance in vocabulary and reading skills http://idb4.wikispaces.com/file/view/rc20.
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On target: Strategies to help readers make meaning through reasoning (Language assessment in India: Some gaps in current studies of reading in second/foreign language learning.
APPENDIX
KOMPETENSI INTI DAN KOMPETENSI DASAR BAHASA INGGRIS PEMINATAN SMA/MA
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