An analysis of reading comprehension questions in “Bahasa Inggris” 2a by Depdikbud used in SMA

Agustina, M.L. (1991) An analysis of reading comprehension questions in “Bahasa Inggris” 2a by Depdikbud used in SMA. Undergraduate thesis, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.

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Abstract

Reading is the most important skill to master the students as a foreign language. Realizing that it is impotant for the students to be able to comprehend the passage correctly, students should know the infomation a write wants to pass on to them. This means that the students should be able to answer the questions of the text. Accordingly, questions play an important part in reading. Through the students' answers, the teacher an know wheter they really understand the text or not. Questions also can lead the students to comprehend the text. In this study, the writer analyzes the content of reading comprehension questions of Bahasa Inggris 2a" by "Depdikbud" for the third semester. Her analysis is based on Bloom·s Taxonomy of cognitive domain. There are six categories of Bloom·s Taxonomy namely: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Knowledge is defined as the remembering and recognition of ideas of materials, and comprehension is defined as the ability to know what is being communicated. Application refers to the ability to use learned material in new and concrete situations; while the category of analysis refers to the ability to break down material into its components or parts so that its organizational structure can be understood. The next category, synthesis is concerned with the ability to put parts together to form a whole. And the last or the highest category is evaluation, concerned with the ability to judge the value of material. There are 15 chapters of reading passages with 127 questions. The questions are categorized into six levels of Bloom·s Taxonomy of cognitive domain. The result shows that there are 61 questions in the category of knowledge. It means 48.03% of the entire questions. Next, 40 questions is in the category of comprehension, equals to 31.50% of the entire questions. 6 questions are in the category of application which equals to 4.72% of the entire questions. And 17 questions for analysis which equals to 13.38% of the entire questions. For the synthesis, there is only one question, it equals to 1.57% of the entire questions. Based on the result, the writer concludes that the types of reading comprehension questions in "Bahasa lnggris 2a" by "Depdikbud" for semester III are based on Blbom·s Taxonomy of cognitive domain. The types of questions are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evalution.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Department:	["eprint_fieldopt_department_Faculty of Teacher Training and Education" not defined]
Subjects:	English Education English Education > PE English
Divisions:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program
Depositing User:	Users 33 not found.
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2015 07:00
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2015 05:38
URI:	http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/1005

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