CHAPTER I INTRODUTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In the global era English is very important, English as an international language is used to communicate by all people in the world. English has important role to develop in many aspect, especially in our country, whether in aspect of economics, education, military and politics. Those aspects use English to communicate by the purpose to improve good relationship between our country and other countries to share the education system, share the technology military, etc. So that, the English language has been learned all of people through course training or in the school and it makes the subject education try to improve the teaching and learning English language to be better through developing on the curriculum, the school facilities, teacher’s quality, textbook material, etc. One of the factors in learning process is textbook. Textbook has an important role in teaching and learning process. Textbook become the main source of guidance for teacher and students. The textbook is made to achieve the learning objective. As stated by Tarigan and Tarigan (1990) that textbook is an important and functional book for student in the school, it is designed by many expert to achieve the goal and instructional objective, complete with appropriate facilities in order to make the user of the book
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In the global era English is very important, English as an international language
is used to communicate by all people in the world. English has important role to develop
in many aspect, especially in our country, whether in aspect of economics, education,
military and politics. Those aspects use English to communicate by the purpose to
improve good relationship between our country and other countries to share the education
system, share the technology military, etc. So that, the English language has been learned
all of people through course training or in the school and it makes the subject education
try to improve the teaching and learning English language to be better through developing
on the curriculum, the school facilities, teacher’s quality, textbook material, etc.
One of the factors in learning process is textbook. Textbook has an important role
in teaching and learning process. Textbook become the main source of guidance for
teacher and students. The textbook is made to achieve the learning objective. As stated by
Tarigan and Tarigan (1990) that textbook is an important and functional book for student
in the school, it is designed by many expert to achieve the goal and instructional
objective, complete with appropriate facilities in order to make the user of the book
understand easily. The writer agrees with the statement because textbook has function to
support and apply the curriculum. So it’s designed and created based on the curriculum.
as stated by Tarigan and tarigan (1990) said that. The textbook is a manual or
instructional or a standard book in any branch of study. It is usually published by many
publisher to every request for an understanding of every subject that can be taught.
Based on the opinion above, the selection of textbook becomes the importance
process (Ariew, 1982). So teacher should select and choose the appropriate textbook
which is going to be used. Which one of the textbook that make teaching and learning
process run easily, and the textbook is appropriate with the students language, simple,
interesting and effective in sentence, so it can make the student understand and
comprehend the material easily and the learning objective can be achieved.
As stated in school level-based curriculum (curriculum 2006) that the skills to be
achieved by students are dealing with speaking, reading, writing and listening. Those
skills are expected to be achieved by the students with the expectation that students are
ready to face the globalization. The students are expected to be the competence users of
English in communicative with others, for example, in teaching speaking they are
expected to be able to do and realize the speech (speech act, speech function, language
function). In developing the competency, the students are instructed to do the speech,
such as opening conversation, defending the conversation, closing the conversation, and
asking for help.
One of another skills should be achieved by students is reading, and it can’t be
denied that reading is one of the important thing in the student skill. The definition of
reading According to Nunan (1989:17) in his book said that “Reading is a process of
decoding written symbols, working from smaller units (individual letters) to larges ones
(words, clauses and sentences)”. Another definition is come from Grigg, Daane, Jin, &
Campbel (2003) Reading is an interactive and constructive process involving the reader,
the text, and the context of the reading experience. Reading involve the development of an
understanding of text, thinking about text in different ways, and using variety of text types
for different purpose. In other hand, Snow, Burns & Griffin, (1998) defining that reading
is a complex developmental challenge that we know to be correlate with many others
developmental accomplishments : attention, memory, language, and motivation.
There ere so many definitions about reading. But the important thing in teaching
learning process is the way how to know the students mastering in comprehend the text.
The teacher have to observe their students related with the students difficulties, students
language and students weaknesses. Those information are very important. It can help the
teacher as references in the teaching-learning process. After we have known the
information about that, the teachers can give the reading material according to the students
level.
The way to know whether the student have mastered the material that have been
though or not is by testing. Testing is used to determine the achievement and also the
progress of an instruction. By testing, teacher can see his students weaknesses and
difficulties in order to make any improvement and to find out other strategies in
instructional process. Testing has important role in teaching-learning process. Teaching
and testing can not be separated. As stated by Heaton (1975) “both teaching and testing
are so closely interrelated that is virtually impossible to work in either field without being
constantly with the others.
There are so many ideas about the important of test. According to Harris (1993)
stated that a test is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional. In other hand
Arikunto (1993:11) states that a test is needed to know how far a programmed can be
applied by the students. And more specific idea is from Heaton (1975:2) , a language test
is needed to enable the teacher to ascertain which part of a language programmed have
been difficult by the students and to give the students an opportunity to show their abilities
in using the correct form of the language.
A test seem to be a sample of behavior. It means that from a limited observation
on a test, inferences will be made about the general competence of the students with the
need of more effective teaching and learning goes to the need for more effective teaching.
In fact, it is not fair if students are always blamed when the result are bad. Actually, the
test result are influenced by the quality of the test administered.
It is important that in testing activity, to get a correct information about students
abilities accurately, The test must have the criteria of good test. There are many ways to
know the quality of good test. Many evaluation expert give their opinion about the
characteristics of good test. Nurkancana and sumartana (1986) point out that qualified test
should be reliable, valid and having high degrees of difficulty and differentiating power.
Harris (1969) stated that a test can be considered as a qualified test if it fulfill the criteria
given. They are validity, reliability and practicable. Arikunto (1993 : 56) stated that a good
test should have validity, reliability, objectivity, practicability and economy. Sudjana
(1991) also state that a quality of a good test can be seen from the validity and reliability.
From those definition it can be said that both validity and reliability are the important
thing to the quality of a good test.
From the explanation above, this study is conducted to analyze the reading
comprehension Question in the English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa
Terampil Dan Aktif” published by Seti Aji, Cimani. This book is used by the second
grade students in second semester of SMK Ma’arif NU in Mantup - Lamongan. Whether
the reading comprehension question in English textbook have the criteria of good test
those are validity, reliability, item difficulty and discrimination level. and this study is
only limited on the reading comprehension question because reading has the essential role
in the teaching – learning process.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM.
In accordance with the background of the study above, the writer formulates
question in carrying out this study. Those question are :
1. How is the content validity of reading comprehension question in English
textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif” published by
Seti Aji, Cimani that used by second grade students in second semester of
SMK Ma’arif NU Mantup - Lamongan?
2. How is the reliability of reading comprehension question in English
textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif” published by
Seti Aji, Cimani that used by second grade students in second semester of
SMK Ma’arif NU Mantup - Lamongan?
3. How is the index of item difficulty of reading comprehension question in
English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif”
published by Seti Aji, Cimani that used by second grade students in second
semester of SMK Ma’arif NU Mantup - Lamongan?
4. How is the index of discrimination level of reading comprehension question
in English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif”
published by Seti Aji, Cimani that used by second grade students in second
semester of SMK Ma’arif NU Mantup - Lamongan?
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.
As the problems statement that mention in above, this study are conducted to
have some objective, those are :
1. To find out the content validity of reading comprehension question in English
textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif” for the
second semester of second grade of Vocational High School published by
Seti Aji, Cimani.
2. To find out the reliability of reading comprehension question in the English
textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif” for the
second semester of second grade of Vocational High School published by
Seti Aji, Cimani.
3. To find out the index of item difficulty of reading comprehension question in
the English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif”
for the second semester of second grade of Vocational High School published
by Seti Aji, Cimani.
4. To find out the index of discrimination level of reading comprehension
question in the English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil
Dan Aktif” for the second semester of second grade of Vocational High
School published by Seti Aji, Cimani.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The finding of this study hopefully can be useful for :
1. The teacher
The writer expect that this analysis will be useful for the teacher . this study
will give the information about the content validity, reliability, index of item
difficulty and index of discrimination level in the reading comprehension question
in the English textbook, so teacher will know the quality of reading
comprehension question whether the reading comprehension question can measure
the learning achievement that must be measure and the texts are appropriate with
the student language level, and the students response/ answer to the question and
the degrees of students in language acquisition.
2. The students
By observing the result of this study, the writer hope that students can
measure their real achievement exactly. The reason is if the fact shows that the
reading question in the English textbook have/does not have a good quality, they
will see that their mark got from the test actually reflect/do not reflect their real
achievement.
3. The books writer
This study hopefully can give the information to the textbook writer. The
textbook writer has made the appropriate textbook in reading comprehension
question or not, it can be seen from this study, so it can be references to the
textbook writer in the future for better English textbook.
1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION.
From this study the writer try to analysis reading comprehension question in
English textbook entitle “Pelatihan Intensif Siswa Terampil Dan Aktif”. Actually there
are so many topics and sub topics in the textbook related to the four skill ( speaking,
listening, reading and writing), but the writer only limited on analyzing the reading
comprehension question in the textbook for the second semester of second grade
students in SMK Ma’arif NU Lamongan..
1.6 KEY WORDS.
In order to avoid misunderstanding about the problems that will be discussed. the
writer list and define the principle terms that used in this research. Those are as follows :
1.6.1 Item Analysis
Item analysis is performed simply to investigate how well the items on the test are
working with a particular group of students.
1.6.2 Content Validity.
validity of the test is the extent to it measure what it is supposed to measure nothing
else.(Heaton ,1975)
1.6.3 Reliability
Oller (1974) stated that the reliability of a test is a matter of how consistently it
produces similar result on different occasions under similar circumstances. Its mean
that it shows the consistence of the test score or other evaluation result from one
measurement to another.
1.6.4 Item difficulty or Facility Value
The index of difficulty or facility value of an item simply shows how easy or difficult
the particular item proved in the test (Heaton,1988). In one line with this definition is
from Oller (1979) points out that item difficulty is about how difficult or how easy a
test item for the students being investigated.
1.6.5 Discrimination.
The discrimination index is item discrimination between the testes, separating the able
testes from the less able (Heaton, 1988:179). It means that the index of discrimination
level is used to differ the students who achieve well (upper group) on the test and
those who achieve poor (lower groups).
1.6.6 Reading comprehension question
Reading comprehension question is the question that have the purpose to measure
students understanding or comprehension in reading.
CHAPTER 2REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter consist of some related literature that will be discussed. Those are : (1) Textbook (2) Reading, (3) Test, (4) Validity & Reliability of the test , and (5) Item analysis, item difficulty and discrimination. 2.1. TEXTBOOK
Textbook is a media or instructional or standard book of any branch of study.
It is usually published by many publisher to every request for an understanding of
every subject that can be taought. Tarigan and tarigan (1990) state that textbook is
standard book, designed by many expert t to achieve the goal and instructional
objective, complete with appropriate facilities in order to make the user of book
understand easily.
In teaching and learning process, textbook has an important role because of
some reason. First, as stated by Tarigan and Tarigan (1990) that the textbook is an
important and functional book for students in school. The textbook has function to
support and apply the curriculum, so it is designed and created based on the
curriculum. Second the textbook is very important because it’s the main source of
guidance for students and teacher. In here, there will be explained the advantages and
disadvantages of the textbook.
2.1.1 THE ADVANTAGES OF TEXTBOOK
As we know the textbook has important role in teaching learning activity.
It has the function as the guidance to provide systematic experience. Arrew in
Higgs (1982) state that “textbook become the motivator and facilitator for the
textbooks user ; students and teacher”. Textbook have so many advantages as
said by Tarigan and Tarigan (1990) that the advantages of textbook are : (1) As a
guideline for teachers as a source of practical teaching, (2) As a media for the
students to study the material by themselves, so teacher does not have to be the
center stage all the time, (3) As a source a homework to the students, (4) As
source of discussion and comparison with the other teachers, (5) To make the
students ability increase and progress.
Other advantages of textbook stated by Hasan Ansary and Esmat Babaii
(2002) are : (1) A textbook is a framework which regulates and times the
programs, (2) In the eyes of learners, no textbook means no purpose, (3)
Without a textbook, learners think their learning is not taken seriously, (4) In
many situations, a textbook can serve as a syllabus, (5) A textbook provides
ready-made teaching texts and learning tasks, (6) A textbook is a cheap way of
providing learning materials, (6) A learner without a textbook is out of focus and
teacher-dependent, and perhaps most important of all, (7) For novice teachers a
textbook means security, guidance, and support.
From those argument, the writer can conclude that textbook has big role in
teaching learning process and become the effective tool and guidance to reach the
teaching learning achievement. Teachers can’t avoid using textbook which is
very important in giving instruction at the school. Textbook is a media to achieve
the learning objective. And better for the students to have the textbook to make
teaching learning process easily.
2.1.2 KIND OF TEXTBOOK.
In our society, there are so many kinds of textbooks used by teachers and
students in teaching and learning activity. Grand (1975) stated that textbook has
two type that are mostly used in teaching and learning process, they are
traditional and communicative textbook. Traditional textbook make the student
learn the language as a system. It’s expected that they use the language for their
own purpose in any way they think in their daily life. The traditional textbook
have criteria as follows : (1) Emphasize the form or pattern of language more than
the communicative language function, (2) Focus on reading and writing activities
rather than listening and speaking activities, (3) focus rather narrowly on a
syllabus and examination, and (4) attractive to some teachers because they seems
easy to use.
The second textbook are communicative textbook. It is try to solve the
problem by creating opportunity for the students to use the language in the
classroom. The criteria of communicative textbook are follows ; (1) Emphasize
the communicative function of language not just the form; (2) Reflect the
students’ need and interest, (3) Emphasize on listening and speaking skill ; (4)
have very specific definition of aims ; (5) Reflect the authentic language of daily
life by the content and methods ; and (6) Emphasize fluency not just accuracy.
2.1.3 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD TEXTBOOK.
Based on Green and Petty (1990) the criteria of good textbook are : (1) It
should arouse students’ interest, (2) It should give motivation for user (students
and teachers), (3) It consist of interesting illustration, (4) It should consider
linguistic aspect to the students’ ability, (5) It content should be integrating to
other subject matter, (6) It should avoid ambiguity concept which can make
students confused, (7) It should have a clear point of view, (8) It should be able to
give stressing point and value to users, (9) It should appreciate the individual
differences of the students.
In other hand, Stevents (2003) add some requirement of good textbook
those are : (1) Realistic, it means capable of being used by the teacher and the
students, (2) Interesting, it means that it varies on interesting topic to the students,
(3) Encouraging, it means that it has quality of making the learners enjoy the
learning to make a progress, (4) Compatible with the approach being followed
with the teachers attitude.
2.2 READING
Reading is an interactive and constructive process involving the reader, the
text, and the context of the reading experience. Reading involve the development of
an understanding of text, thinking about text in different ways, and using variety of
text types for different purpose (from the framework for the NAEP reading
assessment, Grigg, Daane, Jin, & Campbel,2003, P.3). other definition that reading is
a complex developmental challenge that we know to be intertwined with many others
developmental accomplishments : attention, memory, language, and motivation. For
example, reading is not only a cognitive Psycholinguistic activity but also asocial
activity. ( snow, burns & Griffin, 1998, P. 15).
In here, the researchers will explain the essential aspect related reading, that
is reading comprehension, the stage in reading, some factor influence in reading and
reading material, as in turn.
2.2.1 READING COMPREHENSION
Reading comprehension is an interactive process involving the readers,
the text, and the activity or purpose for reading. These elements interact in and
are effected by the larger sociocultural context(reading study group, 2002).
Reading is a complex and purposeful sociocultural, cognitive, and linguistic
process in which readers simultaneously use their knowledge of the topic of the
text, and their knowledge of their culture to construct meaning with text
( National Council of Teachers of English of America, 2004). Being literate in
contemporary society means being active, critical, and creative user not only of
print and spoken language but also of the visual language of film and television,
commercial and political advertising, photography, and more (International
Reading Association, 1996). Reading should be conceptualized as an
engagement. Engage readers not only have acquired reading skill but also use
them for their own purpose in many context.
It is necessary for the students of Senior or Vocational High School to
master reading comprehension. The definition from Cooper (1986) stated that
Comprehension is a process in which the reader may construct meaning by
interacting with the text. In reading comprehension, a reader should have
knowledge about understanding the reading passage. The common questions on
the passages are primarily about the main ideas, details, and an inference that
can be drawn from the passages.
According to Singer (1985) reading comprehension has been defined as
an interpretation of written symbols, the apprehending of meaning, the
assimilation of ideas presented by the written, and the process of thinking while
deciphering symbols. Further, reading comprehension is related closely to the
cognitive competence of the readers, because this will produce comprehension.
In comprehending a topic, the readers interacts with the text relates to
the pre-questioning of the text to prior experiences of construct meaning which
can be found in the text. Skimming and scanning are two very useful techniques
that will help the reader become a better reader.
In here, there will be explain about Skimming and Scanning, as follows :
1. Skimming
Skimming is a technique used to look for the “gist” of what the author
is saying without a lot of detail (Kustaryo, 1988:5). This reading technique is
used if one wants to get a general impression of a book, essay, article and
determine whether or not to read it more carefully. Moreover, Yorkey (134)
defines that there are two purposes of skimming: to locate a specific word,
fact, or idea quickly, and to get a rapid general impression of the material.
Thus, in skimming the text, a reader needs to practice in order he or
she can learn the key words and phrases which can cover all the material he or
she is reading. To do the skimming, the reader should go through a passage
quickly, jumping over parts of it, in order to get a general idea of what it is
about.
2. Scanning
Scanning is quickly reading to find the specific information Brown
(2001:308) stated that, scanning is quickly searching for some particular
piece or pieces of information in a text.
By scanning, a reader mean glancing rapidly through a text either a
text either to search a specific piece of information (e.g. name, date) or to get
an initial impression of whether the text is suitable for a given purpose”,
Nuttall in Kahayanto (2005:11). When scanning the reader lets his or her
eyes wander over the text until he or she is looking for, whether it is a place,
a kind of food, a kind of verb, or a specific information. To enable the
student to scan effectively, he or she should know what kinds of information
he or she needs, also, he or she should have the strong belief where he or she
will find such information needed from the text.
2.2.2 THE THREE STAGES OF READING.
There are three stage while reading that is pre-reading, whilst/active
reading, and post-reading (Abbott, 1981) . Pre-reading stage is the activities
before the students read the text. Then, whilst-reading stage is the activities
during the students read the text and try to understand the text and post-
reading stage is the activities to review the content of text. Those three stages
will be discussed in turn.
2.2.2.1 Pre- Reading Stage
The purpose of pre reading stage is to build the students
knowledge of the text and to motivate the students to read. It needed
to focus the students’ attentions; it can be done by using picture,
asking some questions and analyzing word association. Then the
teacher could motivate the students by providing interesting texts. It
will be difficult because each student has different interests. The
different interests are caused by age, sex, and cultural background. In
this case, the teacher can motivate a class by some anticipation.
The anticipation includes: (1) anticipating the content, (2)
anticipating both the content and the form, ad (3) vocabulary work
looking at the key words.
2.2.2.2 Whilst- Reading Stages
In this stage, the students read the text and try to understand
both literal and implied meaning of the text. This activity includes (1)
Identifying the main idea, (2) Finding details in the text, (3)
Following a sequence, (4) Inferring from the text, (5) Recognizing the
writer purposes and attitude, (6) Recognizing discourses feature, (7)
The teacher role is to help both individual learners with their
particular difficulties and the whole group.
2.2.2.3 Post- Reading Stages
The purpose of post reading stage is intended to review the
content of the text. In this case, the students work on bottom-up
concern such as grammar, vocabulary, and discuss feature and
consolidate what has been read by relating the new information to the
student’s knowledge, interest and opinion. The activities of this stage,
for example the teacher asks some questions for evaluation, asks the
students to write a summary of the text, asks them to retell the essence
of the text.
2.2.3 FACTOR IN READING PROCESS.
2.2.3.1. Cognitive Factor.
A cognitive description specifies what kinds of information
is input to a cognitive action, how this information is processed and
transformed, what data structures are used and what behavior is
generated. Readers are actively engage with the text and build their
own understanding. Engagement presume motivation, interest, and
purpose, even emotional involvement ( both Positive and Negative ).
With comprehension as the goal, readers purposefully sample print,
constructing meaning efficiently and effectively (Duke & Pearson,