Significance of the Study Hypothesis Limitation of the Study

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1.3 Statement of Problem

The writer believes that the problem is one of the things that make life interesting and challenging, as long as we always try to solve it. The problems that will be discussed in this study are: 1 How is the students’ achievement in reading comprehension for students who are taught using Smart Reading Test media? 2 Is there a significant difference in reading achievement between students who are given Smart Reading Test and those who are not given Smart Reading Test in reading hortatory exposition test?

1.4 Objectives of the Study

The Objectives can be stated as follow: 1 Reveal reading achievement of the students who are given Smart Reading Test in reading hortatory Exposition text. 2 Reveal whether or not there is a significant difference in reading achievement between students who are given Smart Reading Test and those who are not given Smart Reading Test in reading hortatory exposition test.

1.5 Significance of the Study

The significance of this study is divided into three parts, they are: 1 For the students, using Smart Reading Test media will make students interesting in learning language, especially in reading comprehension. Using multimedia enables students to comprehend, visualize, and interpret difficult 6 texts. Multimedia hopefully not only can be used in class context, but also at home or anywhere as education and entertainment. 2 For the teachers, they will be more selective in choosing appropriate materials for their students. In addition, Smart Reading Test will make teachers understand how the Macromedia Flash Professional 8 works, so that they will be rich of information and get up-to-date with IT development. 3 For the writer, the writer hopes that the results will provide input for English teachers in order to be more aware of the importance of Smart Reading Test in teaching reading comprehension. In the end, the writer will be an independent, confident, and innovative teacher.

1.6 Hypothesis

There are two hypotheses in this study. The first hypothesis is the working hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis Ha. The alternative hypothesis in this study is there is significant difference in the students’ reading comprehension achievement between those taught using Smart Reading Test and those who taught without Smart Reading Test The second hypothesis is the null hypothesis Ho. The null hypothesis in this study is there is no significant difference in the students’ reading comprehension achievement between those who taught using Smart Reading Test and those taught without Smart Reading Test. 7

1.7 Limitation of the Study

The study will investigate the ability of eleventh graders of SMA AGUS SALIM Semarang in reading hortatory exposition text. The nature of comparative study is to compare experimental groups which are taught by using a treatment with control group which are taught by using reading text manually. Here two of six classes of eleventh graders of SMA AGUS SALIM Semarang will be taken as the sample, one of them as experimental group, who were taught using Smart Reading Test, and the other as control group, who were taught using reading text manually.

1.8 Method of Investigation