THE USE OF CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING READING FOR SECOND GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (Study of SMA Negeri 1 Donorojo in The Academic Year 2021-2022)

Wafiroh, Azizatul. 2022. The Use of Content-Based Instruction in Teaching
Reading for Second Grade of Senior High School (Study of SMA Negeri 1
Donorojo in the Academic Year 2021-2022). Final Project, English
Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor 1: Dr. Sukma Nur Ardini, S.S.,
M.Pd., Advisor 2: Fitri Yulianti, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: Content-Based Instruction, teaching reading, reading comprehension.
The aims of this study were to find out the effectiveness of Content-Based
Instruction method in teaching reading for second grade of SMAN 1 Donorojo
Jepara and to find out the reading comprehension ability of the second grade of
SMAN 1 Donorojo Jepara. The investigation of population of this study was all
second grade MIPA at SMA Negeri 1 Donorojo Jepara in the academic year
2021/2022, which consist of 143 students coming from four classes. The sample
of this study were class XI MIPA 2 consisting of 36 students was treated as
control group and class XI MIPA 4 consisting of 36 students was treated as
experimental group. The samples were selected by a simple random sampling.
The instrument used in this study consisted of reading pre-test and post-test. The
methods of data collection were observation and reading comprehension test. The
data were analyzed statistically in the form of t-test, arithmetic mean and standard
deviation. In finding a significant improvement of students’ reading
comprehension average score from pretest to posttest taught using Content-Based
Instruction (CBI) method, the researcher conducted t-test using Paired Sample t-
test, it showed that the sig. (2-tailed) of experiment is 0.00 and control group is
0.02. 0.000 < 0.05 and 0.02 < 0.05. If the significance < 0.05 (H0) is rejected and
(Ha) is accepted, it means that there is a significance difference in the result of
students' learning scores between the experiment and control group. The students'
ability in reading comprehension in second grade of senior high school in SMA
Negeri 1 Donorojo Jepara in comprehending English text is poor, after taught
using Content-Based Instruction method, the frequency of post-test increased
from poor to very good. Based on the research results of this study, CBI method is
effective and innovative teaching method that can improve students' reading
comprehension, but it would be better if CBI method is combined with other
teaching methods, so that the achievement in learning will be more maximal.