期刊名称：Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
印刷版ISSN：1412-3320
电子版ISSN：2502-4914
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：37-50
DOI：10.24167/celt.v7i1.152
语种：English
出版社：Soegijapranata Catholic University
摘要：This study was designed to investigate the possibility that there might be a signijicallt improvemem 011 the studellts' reading comprehensioll achievemellt following the treatmem through Cohesive Device Recognitioll Skill-Building Exercises. It was conducted ullder the principles of the one group pretest-posttest (repeated-measures) design. 4 J students of Economics Education of FKIP-Ullila attending English as a general subject were chosen as the subjects. These studellts were introduced andtrailled with the skill and encouraged to firstly recognize the cohesive devices employed in the texts, then classify their types andfimctions across the sentences and paragraphs, alld finally to check their comprehe1lsion about the texts on hand. As the design suggests, this research admillistered pretest and posttest as the main instruments in collectillg the data. The data were analyzed using Repeated Measures-Matched T-test. The result shows that t-observe (6./79) is higher thall Hable (2.704) which means that there is a significant improvement on the students' reading comprehellSion achievement following the treatment. This seems to suggest that this technique wor.ked well and was found effective in this stud)~ Since the study was c01lducted to an intact class and even though the test allows us to generalize, the design of the study precludes such generalization. Therefore, further study illvolving randomly selected and ra1ldomly assigned subjects would certainly provide more i1l1eresti1lgfindings.
