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Intensive Reading: Brown 1989 in Abdallah 2010 explains that

the students have to find the conclusion based on the statement. They should inference what the meaning of the statement that is not written on the text. In identifying reference, the students are expected to understand for what the pronouns in the sentences are used such as the pronouns on the text that are used to show people, place, or situation. There is a part of simple text with sentences like that “The students in this room are studying Biology. They are sitting on their chairs. ” and the question is „the word they refer to’, so the students should find that the word they refer to whom. In finding the specific information, the students have to find the detail information or idea that was mentioned on the text. These questions usually are written like that „what happened on the text or which was the character there’. In understanding the meaning of words, the students have to find the meaning of difficult word on the text based on the text context by comprehending the meaning of the sentence or the text, then, they will find the suitable meaning of the word. Therefore, in this research, the writer focus on the aspects of reading above as the theories consideration in constructing reading comprehension test. CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD This chapter describes the method which is used in collecting the data of the research such as research design, population and sample of the research, research instruments, research procedures, the criteria of good test, data analysis, and the hypothesis testing.

3.1 Research Design

This research was quantitative by nature. The writer used Ex Post Facto design to investigate the effect of two variables dependent and independent variables without do experiment Setiyadi, 2006:144. The writer chooses this research design because she tries to investigate whether there is significant effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading comprehension achievement, do the students with high self-esteem get reading comprehension achievement better than students with low self-esteem or not, and what the problems that are faced by the students with low self-esteem. Ex Post Facto design as follows:

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