THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ONLINE NEWSPAPER TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 6 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

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.