gradually improved from the pre-test to cycle III test. I had to use t-test to confirm the significant level of the finding. I processed the result of the pre-test and cycle III test
using t-test. The finding showed that the result was significant since the result was .000.05 sig. 2-tailed. The level of significant was 0.5 and .000 was below 0.5.
B. Implication
Based on the conclusion of all of the data in the research, there is improvement of students’ reading comprehension competence which was taught by using exercises in
CALL. The researcher can imply that the CALL in learning reading can be suitable teaching materials to improve students’ achievement and enhance students’ motivation.
CALL can be implied to help teachers teach English and students learn language in more interesting and various ways. English teachers have to take into consideration the
use of technological tools to help students to improve and reinforce their reading skills. It is necessary that the teachers give the students a appropriate input and practice in
order to provide them with a tool to develop reading skill. The use of CALL can develop in the process of the teaching and learning
language. It is an effective material resource and technique to improve students’ reading competence. There are some advantages for the students which include: 1 the
exercises can create a motivating situation so that they don’t feel bored in learning activity; they have responsibility to do their task without any hesitation. 2 The display
is interesting since it is offered painted and colored materials.
C. Suggestion
The second semester students of Mechanical Engineering had some problems on reading competence. The empowerment of students to achieve the improvement of the
learning process had been achieved well. These findings should not generalization to the similar study for other researchers. The different students, teachers, district, media
would have different results. The qualitative findings also had different results for different students. These were influenced the competence of the students. The certain
participants would achieve the different result. The results of the study prove that the use of CALL in teaching reading can
improve students’ reading competence. These practices could be used as an alternative teaching technique for teaching mechanical engineering students. Based on the result
above, the writer hopes that this study will give benefit for the betterment of English teaching and learning process. The researcher would like to give some suggestions
which hopefully these suggestions will be useful for the students, teachers, and the other researchers.
English as a second language seems difficult to learn if there is no will and motivation to learn it. The students who learn by using exercises in CALL should be
aware of the importance of reading to get some information they need. They should not judge that reading as a boring activity. They can practice reading by using their
computer and they will get more exposures to improve their English. The teacher should know how to enhance their ability in teaching and to develop
a good atmosphere in the class, so that the students learn at ease and comfortably in their class. Besides that, the teacher should be selective and creative in choosing
appropriate materials to improve students’ competence and to enhance students’ motivation in learning English. The teacher can use the exercises in CALL to improve
students’ competence. The use of laptop which closes to students’ daily life offers motivating exercises and it can motivate the students to learn.
This study discusses the use of CALL to improve students’ reading competence which is conducted on the second semester students of mechanical Engineering. The
researcher suggested to other researchers to do similar research with a different media of learning. This would enrich the different treatment for different media and different
participants.
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