know the students’ knowledge before the treatment. The materials of the tests were taken from the reading texts which appeared in the newspaper of Antasari Azhar’s
case. I managed to find 20 words from the reading texts, the 20 words selected by the frequency in the texts and I selected them using a corpus software namely antconc 3.1
version. I took the 20 words because most of the words had not been heard before especially the participants in this study and the frequency counted by the corpus
software to choose the words to be tested and the words should appear often in the reading texts. The time allotted for each test was 45 minutes. Both the pre-test and the
post-test had the same word items. This was important, because the purpose of this research was to find how many new words that the students had learned during the
treatment. After giving the pre-test and before giving the post-test to the students, I gave
them some treatments. During treatments, the students were asked to read the reading materials. The materials contained several words which appeared in the reading text.
D. Research Procedure
The research was conducted for about six weeks from March 8
th
, 20011 until March 24
th
, 2011 and I gave them twelve reading articles. The research started with choosing the participants, and finished with the Post-test activity.
Then, I started to give the pre-test to the participants. Both of the participants were tested at the same time. The test was held outside the class, because I did not
involve the whole students in the class. The reading processes were done in campus under my control. The pre-test and post-test were also administered at campus. In
this section, both participants were asked to answer all of the vocabulary questions in both tests in 45 minutes.
After giving the pre-test to the participants, I gave the participants the first reading material which was taken from Text Your Say in The Jakarta Post newspaper
and I asked them to read it. It helped me to see their real reading activity outside the class. The next meeting, I gave the other reading materials which taken from
Headline in The Jakarta Post newspaper. I also took control of the reading activity of
my participants by supervising them to keep reading the texts. Then, I gave the other reading materials which were taken from Editorial in The Jakarta Post newspaper
and again I supervised both participants to read it in campus. After giving all the reading materials to participants I gave them the post-test on the March 24
th
, 2011. The purpose in giving the post-test was to know whether there was any
improvement in the participants’ vocabulary acquisition. The results of the pre-test would be compared with the results from the post-test to see whether there was any
improvement after they had been exposed to read reading texts using narrow reading.
E. Data Analysis
After collecting the data using several methods and instruments mentioned above, I analyzed and interpreted the data descriptively and it would be in the chapter
four of the study. First, I would like to find out how much vocabulary that the participants could master after reading several texts ‘narrowly’. Then, I would check
what strategies they used in acquiring the new vocabulary words while they were reading the texts by asking them in the end of the meeting after taking the post-test.
To get deeper information about the data I would explain it in the next chapter.
Chapter 4
Analysis and Discussion
This chapter presents and discusses the analysis of the data and findings obtained from the administrations of the vocabulary tests. The vocabulary tests are
based on the objectives and research question of the study, which are to investigate students’ vocabulary improvement in using narrow reading to learn the English
language vocabulary. This chapter reveals the data analysis, following the research question. Firstly,
it includes the answer for the research question, which is the students’ vocabulary improvement after learning using narrow reading, including the explanation about the
findings of the tests results.
A. Vocabulary Improvement
