ABSTRACT
Busthomi, Nanang Rohmat, 2009.
The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading
Activity in Increasing Reading Comprehension and Reading Speed of English Text
in the Ninth Grade Students of MTs Negeri Pamekasan 1.
Key words: extensive reading activity,
reading comprehension, reading speed.
This study was conducted to determine the
effectiveness of extensive reading activity in increasing reading comprehension
and reading speed. The major questions to be answered were:
(1) "Do the ninth grade students of
MTs Negeri Pamekasan 1 who are given additional extensive reading activity
achieve higher reading comprehension compared to the students who are not given
additional extensive reading activity?"
(2) "Do the ninth grade students of
MTs Negeri Pamekasan 1 who are given additional extensive reading activity
achieve higher reading speed compared to the students who are not given
additional extensive reading activity?"