BABASAL English Education Journal
Vol 1, No 1 (2020)

Humorous Stories in Teaching Reading Comprehension of EFL Students

Yusniati N. Sabata (Universitas Muhammadiyah Luwuk)
Lili Ihliyani Kupepe (Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Luwuk)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2020

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the improvement of students’ reading comprehension in eleventh grade at SMA Muhammadiyah Luwuk. To know whether the method is effective or not, the researcher used one-group pre-test and post-test to be applied in eleventh grade. The research conducted eight meetings. The first meeting was for pre-test and sixth meetings were for treatments, and the last meeting was for post-test. As the quantitative method, the researcher analyzed the data using t-test. The results showed that there was significant diffrence on the students’ reading acievement with humorous stories. In the pre-experimental, the students’ mean of pre-test was 36.64 scores, and the students’ mean of post-test was 82.14 scores. The result showed that the t-counted = 8.73 was greater than t-table 1.771. In other words, humorous stories can improve students’ reading comprehension for the eleventh class of senior high school.Keywords: Humorous Stories; Reading Comprehension; Mahasiswa EFL.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

BEEJ

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

BEEJ (BABASAL English Education Journal)is a journal published in Indonesia by English Education Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Muhammadiyah Luwuk. This journal is published twice a year (March and September) both in print and online. This journal aims to ...