The Influence Of Note-Taking Pairs Technique And Student’s Linguistic Intelligence Upon Student’s Reading Competence

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Finny Anita - S891008031 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The aims of this research are to investigate whether: (1) in general, there is a difference on reading competence between the students who are taught using Note-Taking Pairs technique and Directed Reading – Thinking Activity (DR-TA) technique; (2) in general, there is a difference on reading competence between the students having high linguistic intelligence and the students having low linguistic intelligence; (3) there is an interaction effect between the teaching techniques and student’s linguistic intelligence in terms of reading competence. This research was carried out at STKIP-PGRI Pontianak. The population of the research is the evening class of the second semester students of English Education Study Program, consists of 98 students. Cluster random sampling was used to get the sample. The sample used in this research is 30 students of class C as the experimental class and 30 students of the class B as the control class. The techniques of collecting data in this research are tests (reading test and linguistic intelligence test). The linguistic intelligence test was used to group the students into high level and low level of linguistic intelligence. After treatment was given in twelve meetings, the post-test of reading test was conducted to get the research data. ANOVA 2x2 (F-test) and Tukey test were used to analyze the data after the tests of data analysis prerequisite (the normality test and the homogeneity test) were fulfilled. Based on the result of data analysis, the research findings are: (1) in general, there is a difference on reading competence between the students who are taught using Note-Taking Pairs technique and DR-TA technique; (2) in general, there is a difference on reading competence between the students having high linguistic intelligence and students having low linguistic intelligence; (3) there is an interaction effect between the teaching techniques and student’s linguistic intelligence in terms of reading competence. Finally, the research findings imply that the use of Note-Taking Pairs technique can influence the student’s reading competence. Therefore, it is recommended that English teachers/lecturers are applying Note-Taking Pairs technique in teaching reading comprehension. The students are suggested to apply Note-Taking Pairs technique to get better reading competence, so they will be more skillful in comprehending various reading materials.