Method and Design of Study Population and Sample of Study
Table 3.3 Indicators of the Questionnaire
after Treatment Variable
Indicator Question number
Positive Negative
Reading Interest Cognitive Aspect: Concept of Reading
10, 11, 15, 7, 20
8, 12
Affective Aspect: Teacher
23 2, 22, 24
Reading Material 1, 4, 6, 14,
16, 21, 25 3, 5, 9, 13, 17,
18, 19
2. Test The test
was used to see the result of students’ improvement in their cognitive aspect of reading interest. The test was applied in experimental and
controlled class to find out the score of students’ achievement. The score of the test used as comparison between experiment and controlled class. The writer
conducted the test twice for both classes. The first was pre-test and the second was post test.
a. Pre-test Pre-test was conducted for experiment class and controlled class and it
was conducted before the English teens magazine was given as reading material. The purpose of this test is to know whether the students as the
sample have the same background knowledge in research variable. The test used for pre-test was reading comprehension. It consists of 25 multiple choice
questions. The texts of reading comprehension test include of narrative texts, recount text, and procedure text and the students had to answer the questions
based on the text of the questions. The questions adopted from the previous national examination tests for Senior High School.
b. Post-test Post-test was conducted also for both classes and it was conducted after
the treatment. The purpose of this test is to find out the growth of the score to measure the effectiveness of using English teens magazine to improve
students ’ reading interest as the cognitive aspect. The test used in this post-
test was reading comprehension which consisted of 25 multiple choice questions. The texts of reading comprehension test include of narrative,
recount, and procedure text. The text which is used in this post-test were different with the text in pre-test, but the questions used toward the text given
are in the same difficulty level like the questions used in pre-test. The texts were adopted on English teens magazine.