The Effectiveness Of Moodle To Teach Reading Viewed From The Students’ Intelligence Quotient (An Experimental Study At The First Grade Students Of Sma Negeri 2 Purwokerto In The Academic Year Of 2011/2012)

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Restuti Dwiningsih - S89100807 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

This research was conducted to find out whether: (1) the use of Moodle is more effective than Power Point to teach reading to the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 2011/2012; (2) the students who have high intelligence quotient have better reading skill than those who have low intelligence quotient of the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 2011/2012; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching media and students’ intelligence in teaching reading to the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 2011/2012. The method applied in this research was an experimental study. It was done to the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Purwokerto in the academic year of 2011/2012. The cluster random sampling was used to take the samples as the experimental group and control group. Both then were classified into students having high and low intelligence. Multiple choice questions having been tried out to get the valid and reliable items were tested on them. The result were analyzed by multifactor analysis of ANOVA and Tuckey test. Based on the result multifactor analysis of ANOVA, the findings of this research are: (1) Moodle is more effective than Power Point to teach reading; (2) students' intelligence doesn't differ significantly from one another in their effect on the reading ability of the subjects in the experiment; and (3) there is an interaction between the use of media and the students' intelligence in teaching reading. The result of the research implies that Moodle is an effective teaching medium for teaching reading. There was a cause and effect relationship between teaching media and students' intelligence toward reading achievement. Therefore, it is good for the English teacher to use Moodle to teach reading comprehension in the classroom because it has been proved that its various and innovative features are able to increase the students' reading skill.