The Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement and Perception Towards the Online Reading Material

Abstract

The use of online reading materials to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement is highly recommended. Online reading is separate from reading printed texts since it involved reading digital content such as e-books, e-dictionaries, web pages, and online education. As a result, the study's objectives were to look into the use of online reading resources to help pupils enhance their reading comprehension and to determine whether there is a substantial mean difference between pupils who had been instructed utilizing online materials for reading compared to those who were not. The quasi-experimental design was employed to evaluate the pretest and posttest results in the experimental and control groups. The 70 students were selected and put into two groups on purpose. There were 35 pupils in the experimental group and 35 students in the control group. In addition, pretest, posttest and students’ perception were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using the SPSS v.25 program and the t-test (paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test). The paired sample t-test result in the experimental group is 9,420> t-table (df=34) is 1.690 at 0.05 The significance threshold was 0.000 0.05, and the sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 0.05. It was reasonable to establish that students' reading comprehension achievement improved significantly after being taught utilizing online reading materials at SMP Tri Dharma Palembang. Furthermore, the independent sample t-test result The resulting t-value is 20.075> t-table (df=68) is 1.667 at the significant threshold of 0.05 and sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000 0.05. It signifies that there was a statistically significant difference in mean comparing the experimental and control groups. The findings demonstrated that Online reading materials were useful in boosting students' reading comprehension achievement at SMP Tri Dharma Palembang in the academic year 2022/2023.