UTILIZING COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH (CALLA) FOR TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

This study aims to explain reading comprehension and analyze the effectiveness of the CALLA technique in teaching reading comprehension. The researchers used quantitative with quasiexperimental research design. The population of this study consisted all of eighth grade of SMP N 31 Purworejo in the academic year 2022/2023 with total 187 students. The samples were collected from two classrooms, those are VIII E as the experimental class and VIII F as the control class. Both classes had a total of 62 students. After analyzing the data, it found that the mean score of the experimental group is higher than the mean score of control group (76,94>69,20). In addition, the result of independent sample test the t-value is 3.246 with sig. 0,002 which is lower than the critical value 0,002 < 0,05. It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that using CALLA is effective for teaching reading comprehension at the eighth grade students of SMPN 31 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023.