Reading is the most important activity in any language class, not only as a source of information and a pleasurable activity, but also as a means of consolidating and extending one’s knowledge of the language. In this case, the teaching of reading is essential for preparing students with the basic reading skill in order to be able to gain information and knowledge from any reading text. In the process of learning, the central goal of reading is to develop learners’ comprehension. In this case, the researcher proposes Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) as a technique of teaching reading in general English classes. The researcher formulates the statement of the problems in the form of questions as: (1) is there any significant improvement of students’ achievement in reading comprehension after being taught by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)? (2) How do the students respond to Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) in the teaching of reading comprehension?. Since the present study is to measure the effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) towards the students’ reading comprehension achievement, it is classified into quantitative research. Here, the researcher collected numerical data by comparing the results of pre-test and post-test between two groups of experimental study – control and experimental groups. The data is used to investigate whether there is a significant increase in students’ reading comprehension achievement after being given the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) treatment in reading class. After the data of this research was found to be distributed normally, through the calculation of the normality test, there was also a need to identify the homogeneity of the data of the whole scores of the test for both experimental and control groups. The results of the calculation of the t-test indicate that the score of the tvalue is bigger than ttable (2.18 > 2.021). This means that there is a significant improvement in the students’ achievement after they were treated using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) strategy when studying reading comprehension in the classroom. The results of the analysis of the students’ response to the application of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) strategy in the teaching learning activities in the classroom provide a strong preference for the students study reading comprehension using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) strategy. Since this current study is an action research, it is advisable that future researchers could follow up the results of this study for the development of similar research in the field of teaching methods and strategies. This is strongly suggested because there is still plenty of problems and the essences of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) strategy that need to be uncovered. It is also important to see how Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) could be applied in the other language skills, not only for the students of the tertiary education but also at the secondary education.
The difficulty that students faced right now is students cannot adapt to Distance Learning and started the network that they used. WhatsApp is only a communication application, that is not learning media, but they are used for the learning process. Based on the problem above the researcher want to know teachers' and students’ perception about the use of WhatsApp as a media in English subject in teaching-learning. The method that was used in this research is the Qualitative Descriptive approach, the respondents of the study were 1 teacher and 21 students as an informant. The data was collected by using an observation guide, interview guide, and documentation. The researcher found the data conducted from the data that Perception of Teachers by using WhatsApp in the learning process more efficient and make students easily receive the material and apply their assignment but is not effective. There are pros and contras to the use of WhatsApp in students, points that students’ pro such as helping students communicate with their teacher, the contra points such as the internet connection is unstable. Also, the advantages of WhatsApp such as there are no time and place restrictions and the disadvantages such as preparing funds for purchasing quotas.
In teaching and learning, instructional material is important in need analysis for the students Need analysis is the way to know the necessities, lacks, and wants in the environment. The objective of the research is to know the characteristic of need analysis in instructional material based on Instagram for speaking classroom in Private University.The sample of this study is the students in Universitas Muhammadiyah Luwuk Banggai, there are 20 students in speaking classroom. The data obtained fromthe questionnaire and interview which based on google form and conversation between the students and lecturer. The result of this study shows that the characteristics of need analysis of students in speaking classroomat Universitas Muhammadiyah Luwuk Banggai which consists of materials covers of speaking through WhatsApp, some quizzes are implemented, the material touches of technology, the material is provided by grammar, vocabularies, spelling, pronunciation, answer key, review, and conclusion. Based on the findings, it concludes that need analysis is important for instructional material by using WhatsApp in speaking classroomto know the necessities, lacks, and wants. Hopefully, this study can be a contribution to learning and teaching material in speaking classroom for the technology acceptance for the students and lecturer
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