Teaching Reading Comprehension by Using Directed Reading Activity (DRA) Method to the First Year Nursing students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong

Abstract

This study was about Using Directed Reading Activity (DRA) Method to Teach Reading
Comprehension to the First Year Nursing Students of Universitas Muhammadiyah
Gombong. The problem statements of this research were (1). What is a directed reading
activity method? (2). To what extent is the DRA method able to improve the students’
ability in reading comprehension? The objective of this research was to find out whether
or not the DRA method can stimulate the students’ ability in learning reading
comprehension to the first-year Nursing students of Universitas Muhammadiyah
Gombong. The method applied in this research was an experiment. The sample of this
research consisted of 40 students to the first-year students of Universitas
Muhammadiyah Gombong. The writers used purposive sampling in this research. They
used a reading test that was administered in the pre-test and posttest, and used a
questionnaire as well. The result of this research showed that the first-year students of
Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong had an inadequate score in the pre-test. However,
after doing the treatment by using the DRA method their reading comprehension got a
high score in post-test. The data was analyzed by using a t-test and the result shows that
the t-test value (3, 5), was greater than the t-table value (1,703). It can be concluded that
the use of the DRA method is very effective to teach reading comprehension.