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Investigating Students’ Reading Interest on English Reading Materials through Their Reading Habits during Pandemic Slamet Wahyudi Yulianto; Diah Hanah; Khofifah Lisniyanti
ELT in Focus Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): ELT in Focus
Publisher : ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - UNIVERSITAS SINGAPERBANGSA KARAWANG

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35706/eltinfc.v3i2.4585

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This research was conducted to investigate students’ reading interest on English reading materials through their reading habits during a Covid-19 pandemic. It also discovers contents of English reading materials that students most like to read. Survey research design was conducted by the researcher to investigate 98 students of 9 high schools in Subang. The data were collected using questionnaire that was distributed through social media in the form of Google Form link. It was found that 42.9% of the participants have the motivation as well as the willingness, and half (49%) of the total number of the participants get pleasure from reading English materials. Although 33.7% students do not accustom to read English materials outside English classes, it was embodying students’ reading habit which 60 students only read 2 – 3 days a week with the most answer of length less than an hour (41 Students). There are 38 students selected ‘articles on internet’ and 36 students selected ‘academic books’ as their favourite types of reading. Afterward, reading genres the students most selected are ‘education’ (44 students) and ‘entertainment’ (19 students), the rest of them selected poetry, horror, romance, humour, science fiction and other.
Improving Students' Reading Comprehension by Using Kahoot! A Classroom Action Research at the Tenth Grade of SMA Bani Muhyiddin Tanjungsiang in Academic Year 2020/2021 Khofifah Lisniyanti; Dody Wahyudi Purnama; Mimin Aminah
Biormatika : Jurnal ilmiah fakultas keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Biormatika : Jurnal ilmiah fakultas keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan
Publisher : FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35569/biormatika.v9i1.1211

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The purpose of this study is to discover the process of using Kahoot! to improve student's reading comprehension, the improvement of students' reading comprehension after teaching with Kahoot!, and how students respond to the Kahoot! application. The researcher employed a classroom action research design (CAR), and data was gathered through the use of a test, questionnaire, and observation sheets. The outcome revealed that there was a positive response after the action was carried out. Following the action, 66,7% of students strongly agreed that Kahoot! could improve reading comprehension and 53,3% agreed that Kahoot! was effective in learning English. Furthermore, the students' mean pre-test score was 64, and 4 (26,7%) were able to pass the KKM. The mean score of post-test 1 was 69,3, and the percentage of students who passed the KKM was 6 (40%). The mean score of post-test 2 was 74,2, and the percentage of students who passed the KKM was 8 (53,3%). The mean score of post-test 3 was 78,3 and the class percentage of students who passed the KKM was 13 (87%). It can be concluded that Kahoot! is a suitable medium for use in high school, particularly for improving students' reading comprehension.