Warming up for Reading in Order to Increase Students’ Reading Skill

Sunarti Sunarti

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Warming up for Reading in Order to Increase Students’ Reading Skill

Sunarti Sunarti

Published in International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 27 September 2020 Accepted: 27 October 2020 Published: 11 November 2020

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This study aims to describe the use of WFR in teaching reading, the problems in using WFR in reading class and to identify students’ responses to the implementation of WFR. The results of the study is aimed to contribute to the teaching and learning process of reading. This research was conducted on second year nursing students of Universities Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur. The research sample consisted of 40 students of nursing. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews and tests. After collecting data and analyzing it and describing the results of the research with classroom action research procedures, the authors describe the results of the research. WFR was conducted in four meetings. Appropriate in teaching reading and helping students improving or developing their reading skills. There are several obstacles faced by students in the teaching and learning process, namely most students have difficulty in composing sentences correctly, students have difficulty translating words from English into Indonesian and Indonesian into English, students do not understand the teaching materials, assignments, and students have difficulty finding the main idea of the text. During the teaching and learning process from the first meeting to the fourth meeting the students' responses were quite good. They look enthusiastic in every meeting. The results of hypothesis testing show that the t-observation is always greater than the t-table; at degrees of freedom N - 1 = 39 and a significance level of 0.05. That is, there is a significant difference between student achievement before and after the implementation of WFR. In conclusion, learning to read using WFR on nursing students at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur produced good results. The WFR method is the right method to improve students' reading skills and help the teaching and learning process.

Published in	International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijsedu.20200804.13
Page(s)	121-125
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Warming up for Reading, Reading, Students’ Reading Skill

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English Department, Faculty of Education, Universities Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia

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