Effects of Information Type and Topic Preference
on Reading Comprehension of Explanation
Text Gained by the
Eleventh Grade IPS Students of SMA Negeri 1 Bulik in Academic Year 2012/2013
Yuseftu Leluno
Graduate Program in English
Education
Palangka
Raya University
Abstract
This study was
conducted to find out the effects of information type on reading comprehension of explanation text gained by the eleventh grade IPS students of SMA Negeri 1 Bulik in academic year 2012/2013. Besides, this study was also conducted
to find out the effects of topic
preference on reading comprehension and to
find out the interaction effects of information type and topic preference on reading
comprehension of explanation
text gained by the eleventh grade IPS students of SMA Negeri 1 Bulik.
The population of
this study was the eleventh grade of IPS students of SMA Negeri 1 Bulik in academic year 2012/2013. Reading test was used as the
instrument in order to collect the data needed. There were two kinds of the
text in this study: Explanation
Text with Thesis Statement and Explanation Text with Main Idea.
The research method
that used in this study was experimental method. The data were processed and
analyzed according to the following steps: giving the treatment, checking and scoring,
tabulating, analyzing the data by using Mann Whitney Rank Sum Test and Kruskal Wallis Rank Sum Test processed
by SPSS version 15, and taking conclusion based on statistical result.
The result of this
study showed that there was no significant
effect of thesis
statement on reading comprehension. There
was significant effect of
topic preference on reading comprehension. The
interaction effect of
information type and topic preference on reading
comprehension of explanation text gained by the
eleventh grade IPS
students of SMA Negeri 1
Bulik in academic year 2012/2013
could not be proved whether there was significant or not. Since, the data were
tested by using nonparametric Mann Whitney Rank Sum Test and Kruskall Wallis Rank Sum Test.
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