Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Online Reading Texts and Whatsapp Chats at Grade Eleven of SMAN 1 Teluk Kuantan, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.057How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- students’ reading comprehension, online reading texts, Whatsapp chats
- Abstract
The use of online reading texts has become an important part of the learning process. This article explains the online reading texts and Whatsapp chats improve the students’ reading comprehension of Grade Eleven of SMAN 1 Teluk Kuantan, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau. This study is classroom action research (CAR). The procedures of the research consist of four major steps: planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The finding shows that the use of online reading texts is effective to improve the students’ ability in reading comprehension. The improvement can be seen from the increase of their scores from preliminary test, test of cycle I and cycle II. the percentage of the correct answers of the students was 62.50%, it increased to be 71.32% in cycle I test, and then it became 75.00% in cycle II test. There was also a satisfying improvement for this kind of question. The percentage of the correct answers of the students for making inference questions in preliminary test was 59.56%, it increased to be 69.85% in cycle I test. It also can be seen from the observation sheet and the field notes of the collaborator.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Subhan Shabri AU - Yenni Rozimela AU - Mukhaiyar PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/11 TI - Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Online Reading Texts and Whatsapp Chats at Grade Eleven of SMAN 1 Teluk Kuantan, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 339 EP - 342 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.057 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.057 ID - Shabri2020 ER -