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3. For Accounting Program of Sanata Dharma University
Yogyakarta
It is hoped that the reading materials can increase the students’ reading ability in applying English in Accounting subjects such as
Behavioral Accounting, Auditing, Bussiness Communication, Analysis of Financial Statement which use English as the textbooks language. By
having better quality of English reading skills, the students will be able to understand the knowledge and to serve Financial Statement in English. As
a result, it will increase the quality of Accounting graduates of Sanata Dharma University in general.
1.6 Definition of Terms
In this section, the writer intends to discuss the terms, which are used in this study. The terms are follows:
1. Instructional Computing
Instructional Computing is defined as the use of computer in the design, development, and delivery, and evaluation of instruction Newby,
2000a: 18. In this study, instructional computing is the process of translating principles of learning and instruction using the computer. It is
aimed to reduce the time required to to design and produce instructional materials. It is also to ensure the maximum effect on Accounting students’
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2. Website
Web or website as a multimedia resource and communications tool based on hypertext, a system of clickable Teeler Gray, 2000. A source
of fast information resources on the internet is the web or world wide web Newby, 2000b: 58.
In this study, web is media to deliver the presentation of English reading materials to Accounting Students. The website,
www.efa.lisadian.com consists of webpages containing English reading
materials and its exercises. The writer allows the students to experience materials through website and provides the students with repeated and
varied experiences with subject matter to help them comprehend English Reading.
3. Web design
According Newby 2000c: 59 web design is the skill of creating presentations of content in the form of hypertext or hypermedia.
In this study, web design is the skill of designing www.efa.lisadian.com
using softawares. Designing web is started with buying domain
www.lisadian.com and hosting space at IDWebhost;
installing Apache MySQL PHP WampServer 1,5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS2, and Adobe Photoshop; doing PHP programming; uploading PHP
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root at c:\apache\wamp\www\efa, and finally dumping the database in the webserver.
4. Reading
According to Mitchell 1982: 1, reading is defined as the ability to make sense of written or printed symbols. The reader uses the symbols to
guide the recovery of information from his or her memory and subsequently uses this information to construct a plausible interpretation
of the writer’s message. Whorter 1990: 4 states that “reading is thinking”. It is active process of identifying important ideas and
comparing, evaluating, and applying them. In this study, reading is a set of activities to intepret and comprehend
Accountancy texts through website. The process is started with accessing web, signing in, reading learning objectives, activating the students’
background knowledge by doing pre-reading, reading main passage, and doing exercises. It is expected that reading activities will motivate the
student’s in reading and enhance their reading ability.
5. Accounting Students of Sanata Dharma University
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