Abstract:
The objectives in this research were to know the result of students reading
comprehension ability by using online newspaper and to find out whether the use
online newspaper effective or not for teaching news item text. Students were
given pre-test and post-test reading to control and experimental group. The
population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMA N 6 Purworejo in
the academic year 2013/2014.the sample of this research is class X-4 as control
group that consist of 32, and X-5 as experimental group that consist 32 students.
So, the number of sample was 64 students. In collecting the data, the researcher
gave treatment for experimental group using online newspaper and common
material for control group. Before the experiment was conducted, the students
were given a pre-test for both groups. At the end of the experiment, each group
was given a post-test.
Based on the previous computation, the mean score of experimental group
was 84.00 and it is excellent category. The mean of control group was 76.88 and it
is good category, to see whether the hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the tvalue
was consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It shows that the ttable
was 1.87 and the t-value was 5.12. It means that t-value was higher than the
t-table, that was 5.12>1.87. Having analyzed the data, the writer found that the
students’ achievement of experimental class was better than the control class. So,
it can be conclude that the use of online newspaper to improve reading
comprehension ability at the first grade students of SMA N 6 Purworejo in the
academic year of 2013/ 2014 was effective.
