Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)

Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Online Reading Texts and Whatsapp Chats at Grade Eleven of SMAN 1 Teluk Kuantan, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau

Authors
Subhan Shabri, Yenni Rozimela, Mukhaiyar
Corresponding Author
Subhan Shabri
Available Online 11 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.057How to use a DOI?
Keywords
students’ reading comprehension, online reading texts, Whatsapp chats
Abstract

The use of online reading texts has become an important part of the learning process. This article explains the online reading texts and Whatsapp chats improve the students’ reading comprehension of Grade Eleven of SMAN 1 Teluk Kuantan, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau. This study is classroom action research (CAR). The procedures of the research consist of four major steps: planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The finding shows that the use of online reading texts is effective to improve the students’ ability in reading comprehension. The improvement can be seen from the increase of their scores from preliminary test, test of cycle I and cycle II. the percentage of the correct answers of the students was 62.50%, it increased to be 71.32% in cycle I test, and then it became 75.00% in cycle II test. There was also a satisfying improvement for this kind of question. The percentage of the correct answers of the students for making inference questions in preliminary test was 59.56%, it increased to be 69.85% in cycle I test. It also can be seen from the observation sheet and the field notes of the collaborator.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 March 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-922-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.057How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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