IMPROVING STUDENTS ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION NEWS ITEM TEXT BY USING OLD AND NEW INFORMATION

Abstract

The aims of this study is to clear that the students reading comprehension could be well improve by using old and new information in SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 9 MAKASSAR. The design of this study is pre-experimental design. The population of this research is the eleventh grade of SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 9 MAKASSAR, that consist of 20 students as a sample. The data collection is use pre-test and post-test to find out students writing ability before the treatment and after the treatment. This study conclude there is significant or no in improving students ability in reading news item text by using old and new information. The result of the data analysis through the reading test also showed that the mean score of pre-test was 79.2 and post-test was 85.2, while the standard deviation of pre-test was 18.7 and post-test was 11. The significant difference of t-test and t-table through the result of pre-test and post-test, the result of t-test value of the level of the significant 5% = 0.05, degree of the freedom (df) = 19 indicated that t-table value was 2.093 and t-test value was 33.080. Therefore, it can be concluded that statistically hypothesis of H1 was accepted and the statistically hypothesis of H0 was rejected. It means that the material of News Item in teaching can improve the students’ comprehension of reading.