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The effectiveness of cloze procedure technique in teaching reading comprehension at SMAN 3 Kediri
Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastered by foreign language students. It plays a big role as a means of communication to achieve ideas and information. The goal of reading is comprehension. It means that the goal of teaching reading is to enable the students to read effectively and efficiently with understanding the content of the text. Teaching reading needs a good technique to make the students comprehend. There is a technique to teach reading. it is Cloze Procedure Technique. Moreover, the aim of this study is to know whether the students who are taught by cloze procedure technique will get a better score in their reading comprehension compared than those who are taught by reading aloud technique.
The design of this study is quasi experimental design. Meanwhile, the population of this research is the students of the second grade of SMAN 3 Kota Kediri in the second semester in the academic year of 2019/2020. The samples are two classes, and are divided into two groups: experimental and control group. They are class XI MIPA 3 and XI MIPA 8. The experimental group was taught by Cloze Procedure and control group was taught by reading aloud. To collect the data, the pre-test and post-test were applied to experimental and control group.
The result of the test was analysed by using ANCOVA. The result isthat the sig. is higher than 0.05 (0.92> 0.05). It reveals that the null hypothesis cannot be rejected. Thus, cloze procedure is not effective in teaching reading. Although there is no significance difference between the students who get cloze technique and students who get reading aloud technique, there is still an increasing score in experimental group.
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