The Effect of Applying the Talk-To-The-Text Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Texts

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10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

talk-to-the-text; reading comprehension; narrative text

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of applying the talk-to-the-text strategy on students' reading comprehension of narrative text. By employing quasi-experimental research design, specifically pre- and post-tests design one, talk-to-the-text reading strategy was implemented as treatment in experimental class and another control class was taught by utilizing conventional strategy. The study was conducted in the eighth grade students of Junior Secondary School in one of school in Bintan, Indonesia. Cluster random sampling was employed in order to determine the samples. In gaining the data, the instrument used was reading comprehension test. Based on data analysis by using t-test, the result revealed that talk-to-the-text strategy give better effect toward comprehension of grade eight students when reading narrative texts.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fadhila Yonata
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - The Effect of Applying the Talk-To-The-Text Strategy on Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Texts
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 71
EP  - 76
SN  - 2352-5398
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