Operational Definitions of the Terms Story Text Repeated Reading Aloud Technique

I.5 Operational Definitions of the Terms

Operational definitions of the terms in this study are essential to avoid misunderstanding between the researcher and the readers about the concept used in the title. The terms that were necessary defined operationally in this research were story text, repeated reading technique and students’ reading comprehension achievement.

a. Story Text

Story text in this research refers to the text in the form of narrative that was given to the students during the research conducted. Story text itself were anything told or recounted; more narrowly, and usually, something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of events; account; tale,: the telling of a happening or connected series of happenings.

b. Repeated Reading Aloud Technique

Repeated Reading Aloud technique is a technique that allows the students read through a passage repeatedly, silently and aloud, and receives help in finding difficult words. In this technique, the teacher has to manipulate the reading passage by selecting the most interesting one. That is why this research action chosen the story text for the main activity. The students were given chance to read the passage silently at the first reading, and to monitor their reading improvement, they had to read loudly to their partner while their partner was observing the improvement of reading which was documented on the checklist provided. While Reading Aloud was a planned oral reading of the text provided based on theme or topic of study. This activity included in the research procedures as a step which the goal was to get information about the numbers of words which was pronounced incorrectly by the students in the learning process. Repeated Reading Aloud Technique was a combination between Repeated Reading Technique and Reading Aloud activity. This research consisted of some activities dealing with reading aloud activity, which the students worked in pair in order to monitor each other the numbers of words that pronounced incorrectly in the text.

c. Reading Comprehension