Nufus, Mariatun (2014) The Influence of Sentence Length on the Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2013/2014. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Mariatun Nufus. 2014. The Influence of Sentence Length on the Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2013/2014. Thesis, English Department. Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty. Advisor: DR. H. Husnul Yaqin M.Ed. This research describes about the influence of sentence length on the students’ reading comprehension ability. The problems of the research are: 1) How is the students’ reading comprehension ability in sentence length? 2) Is there the influence of sentence length on the students’ reading comprehension ability at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin academic year 2013/2014? Population of the research is all the students at the fourth semester of English education department. The samples of this research are 47 students (30%) were taken by using stratified proportional random sampling technique. To collect the data, the writer uses two techniques such as written test and documentary. Written test is to know the students’ reading comprehension ability on sentence length, and documentary is used to collect the data about students’ learning achievement. Then all of the data that have been collected are processed using quantitative statistic method. The writer used formula of Product Moment correlation to measure the influence of the study to get the final result. By using product Moment Formula, the final result is 0,508. It has to consult with rxy, where (df) is 45 in 5% degree significant is 0,294 and at 1% degree significant is 0,380. So, it appears the result that 0,294 < rxy > 0,380. It means null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The standard clarification of correlation is positive and occurs in 0,40 – 0,60 level. So, the correlation between long sentences and short sentences in sentence length is in average category. It can be stated that there is an average influence of sentence length in reading comprehension at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2013/2014.

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