Reading Comprehension by Using Cloze Test and C-Test at Sixth Semester STKIP-PGRI Banjarmasin: Comparative Study

Ahmad Wahyudi. 2016. Reading Comprehension by Using Cloze Test and C-Test at Sixth Semester STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin: Comparative Study. Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisors: (1) Dr. Ridha Fadhillah, M.Ed , (II) Raida Asfihana, M.Pd\ud Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Test, Cloze Test, C-Test\ud \ud This research is intended to investigate two kinds of testing techniques for measuring students’ reading comprehension achievement particularly focuses of using cloze test and C-test. This study investigates: (1) the result of the students’ reading comprehension tested by using cloze test, (2) the result of the students’ reading comprehension tested using C-test and (3) the comparison between cloze test and C-test for testing students’ reading comprehension at sixth semester STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin.\ud \ud This research is a comparative research which the data is analyzed quantitatively. The population of the research is 59 students on the sixth semester of English Department STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin. Then, 59 students become the samples because the population is less than 100 people. To investigate, two kinds of instruments are used, which are cloze test and C-test. \ud \ud To collect the data, the researcher uses two techniques such as observation and test. Data analysis is inferential analysis to compare two kinds of instruments, which are cloze test and C-test by using non parametric research. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively and quantitatively by using Wilcoxon Signed-Rank and Z test in order to find out the comparison between cloze test and C-test for testing students’ reading comprehension.\ud .\ud The result of this study shows that (1) The result of cloze test for testing students’ reading comprehension is in fair category with mean score 63.02, (2) The result of C-test for testing reading comprehension averagely are in fair category with mean score 64.34. (3) There is no any significant difference between the result of cloze test and C-test for testing reading comprehension which the value of “z” is 0.057 < 1.96 and p-value probability significance is 0.954 > 0.05. Therefore, z-count is smaller than z-table and also a = 0.05 is smaller than p-value Ho (Zero Hypothesis) is accepted and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) is rejected