The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading Activity in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension : An Experimental Study of the Eleventh Grade Students at a Private SMA in Bandung

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Judul	A Paper The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading Activity in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension : An Experimental Study of the Eleventh Grade Students at a Private SMA in Bandung
Abstrak	The title of this study is ‘The Effectiveness of Extensive Reading Activity in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension’. This study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of extensive reading in improving students’ reading comprehension. This study which was conducted at a private SMA in Bandung employed quasi experimental method. Pre-test, treatment, and post-test served as the research design in this study. In this case the eleventh grade students in class XI B and XI C became the sample of this study. Reading comprehension test and questionnaire were used as the research instruments. The data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0 and interpreted in descriptive way.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENSIVE READING ACTIVITY IN INCREASING READING COMPREHENSION AND READING SPEED OF ENGLISH TEXTS

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?" 

the uniqueness of English blending words

Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Chunnel, the tunnel that runs under the English Channel connecting France and England. In 1994, the 31 mile Chunnel was formally opened in a ribbon cutting ceremony by France's President Mitterrand and the Queen of England.

It took eight years to complete the Chunnel, but its name is consistent with a linguistic phenomenon that raged throughout the 20th century, and it doesn't look like there is a light at the end of the tunnel this century. The phenomenon is blending words, as in taking two words: channel and tunnel, and blending them into a single word: Chunnel.