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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
In teaching English, there are four skills that should be mastered by the learners,
namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills cannot be separated in
teaching process but taught integratively because they are related each other. Thus, to master
those skills the students must have knowledge about the components of language, such as
learners do not have the high quality for those skills in learning English. One of the reasons is
Related to the issue, many studies have shown that reading has a beneficial effect of
According Kenneth (1996), reading can be a great way to improve your vocabulary.
Moreover, reading is very important to the students because reading helps to solidify the
students’ grasp of vocabulary, structure and complements of the other language skills. Those
Moreover, there are two popular reading approaches to expand students’ vocabulary
in teaching foreign language, namely extensive and intensive reading approaches. Intensive
reading approach is often called as traditional reading approach while extensive reading
approach is often called as modern reading approach (Nuttal, 1996, P.129). However, both of
them have significant effect toward students’ vocabulary growth. So, the writer thinks that
the teaching of English vocabulary under both extensive and intensive reading activities can
since they believe that extensive reading is appropriate approach in expanding the students’
vocabulary. While others are interested to investigate the effect intensive reading approach
towards students’ vocabulary growth because they also believe that intensive reading is
In addition, many experts believe that the vocabulary can be learnt well through
extensive reading approach. For example, Pitts, White, and Krashen (1989) in Bamford and
Day (1998:34) set up extensive reading program, in ESL, adults, USA. It gains in vocabulary.
Similarly, Hafiz and Tudor (1990) in Bamford and Day (1998:34), they applied extensive
reading program in EFL, in Primary and Pakistan, which the result is gain in vocabulary base
and writing. Another research is Anderson in Essberger (1997:2) shows their research that
extensive reading is the major source of vocabulary acquisition beyond the beginning step of
learning to read. Those studies shown that extensive reading is a great way to develop the
students’ vocabulary.
vocabulary under extensive reading approach that had been done by some researchers in our
area, South East Sulawesi. For example, Sahar (2003) conducted a study which investigated
the students’ vocabulary growth under extensive reading at the second semester of English
major at FKIP Unhalu. Likewise, Basrun (2008) investigated student’s vocabulary growth
under extensive reading. Those studies also shown that there is a significant growth of
Similarly, intensive reading approach has been practiced in various fields including in
the field of English teaching vocabulary. Tukamasi (2002) investigated student’s vocabulary
growth under intensive reading approach at the second class of SLTPN 2 Sampolawa.
Likewise, Hani (2003) investigated student’s vocabulary growth under intensive reading
approach at the second class of SLTPN 2 Tongkuno. Those studies shown that there is a
approach.
Carrel and Carson 1997 and Nuttal (1996) in Bamford and Day (1998: 296) stated that
it is important to note that these two approaches to teaching reading, intensive and extensive
reading should not be seen as being in opposition. Since the aim of intensive reading is not
only to help students obtain detailed meaning from the text but also to enhance vocabulary
and grammar knowledge. It means that there is not a substantial difference between extensive
reading approach and intensive reading approach in teaching foreign language including in
vocabulary learning.
Regarding to the above statements of two reading approaches, the writer therefore
investigates a comparative study between extensive reading and intensive reading approaches
to find out the differences and which approach is more effective towards students’ vocabulary
The research questions of this study is: “Is there any significant difference of students’
reading approach and intensive reading approaches to the year two of SMA Negeri 2
Kendari?”
1. To find out the students’ vocabulary growth under Extensive Reading Approach to the year
3. To find out the empirical data concerning the different of students’ vocabulary growth
under Extensive Reading Approach and Intensive Reading Approaches to the year two of
1. The result of research will become as one of useful information about a comparative study
between Extensive and Intensive Reading Approaches for the teachers, particularly for
3. As one of the reference for the further studies who want to conduct a research about
This study focuses on measuring the student’s vocabulary growth difference under
Extensive and Intensive Reading Approaches to the year two of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari.
Moreover, this study is concentrated on the second semester of the year two of SMA Negeri 2
Kendari. Furthermore, this study does not measure the students’ achievement on the reading
comprehension. The presented vocabulary is limited on nouns, verbs, and adjectives that
wanted the learners can understand the meaning of the words that taught.
1.6 Hypothesis
The hypotheses of this research is: “There is a significant difference on students’ vocabulary
growth as a result of applying two different teaching approaches, extensive reading approach
and intensive reading approaches to the year two of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari”.
1. Intensive Reading Approach is the one of reading approaches, that the students or the
readers read the text carefully for getting the information in comprehending the text
contents (Tarigan, 1987:10). Intensive reading allows students to pause the reading and
look new words up in the dictionary to get a better understanding of reading text.
2. Extensive Reading Approach is associated with reading large mounts with aim of getting
an overall understanding of the material, but also leads them to enjoy reading (Bamford
strengthening the small amounts of knowledge of gained from previous meeting. In other
words, vocabulary growth is the increasing of students’ vocabulary after they are
exposure by extensive reading approach and intensive reading approach. It can be seen by
LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter presents the concept of vocabulary, theory of extensive reading, the
characteristic of extensive reading, the role of the teacher in intensive reading, extensive
an extensive reading, extensive reading procedures, the theory of intensive reading, the
characteristics of intensive reading phase, the role of the teacher in intensive reading,
vocabulary learning strategy in intensive reading, and distinguishing extensive and intensive
reading approaches.
Vocabulary knowledge is very closely associated with the ability to comprehend what
is heard and read, and may be related to general intelligence and reasoning ability. Therefore,
the quality of someone language skills depends on the quantity of vocabulary that he/she has.
Someone who has enough vocabulary, enable to communicate well. We should ensure that
our students are aware of the vocabulary that they need for their level and they can use the
words. Moreover, it is one of the language components that can support the language skills
such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. One who have better vocabulary will
probably have better language skills rather than who do not because vocabulary is a source of
developing the language skills. According to Cronbach (1942) in Maher (2008) categorized
vocabulary as the knowledge of word meaning. In related to this, Nation (1990) states that
“vocabulary knowledge is very closely related with the ability to comprehend what is heard
and read and may be related to general intelligence and reasoning ability”. It can be says that
vocabulary is an ability to recognize the words and understands their meaning, and it is
recognized as possibly the most factors in being to use and understand spoken and written
language.
words, or list of words used in book etc. usually with definition or translation. Moreover,
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary cited in Marhumi (2001:7) exposed that
defined”. This statement indicates that it is a list of test for knowledge (as meaning or use) of
component which make information about meaning and using of words in the language, (2)
repertory words that are possessed by a speaker, writer or a language, (3) a list of words
Based on the above statement, it can be concluded that vocabulary is the words of
language that having meaning and used in language. In this case, vocabulary is used by the
Thus, Ur (1996:60) states that vocabulary can be defined roughly as the words we
teach in the foreign language. However, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single
word for example, for office and mother in law which is made up of two or three words but
express a single idea. Furthermore, he stated that there are also multi-words idioms such as
call it a day, where the meaning of the phrase cannot be deducted from an analysis of the
component words. From those definitions above, the writer concludes that vocabulary is the
meaningful. The meaning of this statement is more appropriate to the conceptual meaning of
Palmer (1968) in Banford and Day (1997: 5) points out that extensive reading as an
in Bamford and Day (1997:6) called extensive reading as pleasure reading. Likewise,
Karshen (1993) in Bamford and Day (1997:6) called extensive reading as free voluntary
reading or when teacher gives students time for in-class sustained silent reading (SSR) in a
period of 20 minutes. Those theories shown that extensive reading is one approach in
teaching reading with the main purposes is creating the enjoyable reading class. In which,
activity. This activity encourages students to read individually, and to administer the
program. The students are not reading simply for the sake reading, but they are improving
On the other hand, Nuttal (1982: 169) in Kamaluddin (2008 : 10-11) stated that if the
teacher wants to teach a second language, the teacher needs to select the texts based on the
students’ interest and ask students to skim the reading text. Moreover, Djuharie (2008)
mentioned that extensive reading also includes previewing, scanning, and skimming. In
which, in previewing, the students may read the title, subtitle, indexes or other illustrations
such as the information either on the front or on the back of the book cover before reading the
entire or the content of the book (Djuharie, 2008 P. 73). It means that, in extensive reading,
the students can read the books or texts by scanning or skimming. Besides that, the students
are free in reading and they read any kinds of books based on their interest and preference.
reading in particular and the approach to teaching foreign language in general. They also
emphasize on the reading activities as free activities without any force in order to get pleasure
Bell (1998:13) in Basrun (2008: 10) mentioned some thoughts of extensive reading.
First, extensive reading can use specifically prepared materials or self selected materials.
Second, extensive reading requires fluent reading. Third, the goal of extensive reading is to
increase motivation. It means that, in extensive reading approach, students read fluently
based on their preference. It therefore can increase students’ motivation. Besides that, Diem
(1999:112) also stated that extensive reading is a kind of reading for main ideas without
trying to understand every word of what is being read. The emphasis is only on what can be
understood about the reading materials. Williams (1994) in Diem (1999:112) point out that
extensive reading is a reading program in which students read widely without restraints, with
Based on the above theories of extensive reading, some ideas about extensive reading
can be generated. Firstly, reading is done within the students reading ability level. This makes
students will process words faster and build the automatic recognition of words. If the
students read faster, they will begin to see word in groups which allow them to move from
reading word by word to reading with ideas. Thus, Increasing reading fluency. Secondly,
extensive reading builds confidence in reading and motivation to read more because reading
become not difficult and students determine the reading material based on their interest.
Thirdly, extensive reading helps students to form the habit of reading. Once the students have
the reading habit, they can bring it to their lives and continue to improve their foreign
language whether in or out of class. Fourthly, extensive reading provides opportunities for
noticing new language and working out the pattern of the text and phrases.
From the explanation above, the writer concludes that students do extensive reading
because extensive reading is done within the students current ability level, so it can build
This means that the students are encouraged to read a lot. They devotee the time in
It means that the teacher must provide some or various topics of reading materials.
The students can choose the material based on their need and interest.
4. The purpose are usually related to pleasure, information, and general understanding
Mostly students read the books to get pleasure, information, and general
understanding.
The main task of student is just reading without doing exercise after reading.
In extensive reading program, reading is not done in group but individual and students
The students are suggested to read fast than read slowly so that students can read a lot
In extensive reading program the teacher must be good model of good reader. It
9. Teacher oriented students to the goals of the program, explain methodology, keep track,
The teacher needs to explain about purpose, methodology, and to control students in
10. Reading materials are well within linguistic competence of the students.
The vocabulary and grammatical level of reading material is suitable with students’
ability or level.
The most commonly reported post reading task that teachers employ is summary
writing or book review. These include asking students to copy interesting words and useful
expressions into a notebook and share their views about the book with a small group of
classmates. According Renandya and Jacobs (1997) in Bamford and Day (1998: 290) stated
that post reading tasks, if carefully designed can be used to (1) reinforce what students have
learned from their reading; (2) give students a sense of progress; and (3) help students share
information about materials to read. It means that, post reading tasks in extensive reading also
necessary to help develop students’ vocabulary. One important thing is how the tasks do not
Extensive reading gives valuable activities in order the students can expand their
vocabulary. Therefore, the teacher should manage the class well in order to make the students
successfully in increasing their vocabulary. Nation (1998:3) stated that if the small amount of
learning of a word is not soon reinforced by another meeting, then the learning will be lost. It
means that, when the students read the English text books, they will have repeated
opportunities to find the wanted vocabulary. It can help them to memorize or remind the
meaning of the words well. That’s why; Nation here warns that is one important thing in
extensive reading program that learners should keep meeting words that they have met
before. It therefore, the teacher should provide the vocabulary teaching during extensive
reading program.
Furthermore, Nation (1998:3) then suggests three ways in order to realize his idea
(a) by doing large amounts of extensive reading at suitable vocabulary levels so that there are
repeated opportunities to meet wanted vocabulary, (b) by completing the extensive reading
program with the direct study of vocabulary, and (c) by providing other reading materials,
such as novels, stories, or magazines. So, the teacher should apply the three important things
to the students in extensive reading class. In which, the teacher asks the students to read
largely and based on their interest and preference. The teacher therefore should provide a lot
of reading books for students. Besides that, the teacher should give the direct study of
vocabulary and control the students during reading class. The purposes are to help students in
understanding the content of reading texts and help them to read fluently.
Based on the above statements, the teacher has a big role to make extensive reading
class run well and successfully. Therefore, the teacher should manage the class well because
the success of the program is much more determined by teacher’s management of the
Forte (in Chapter 2 Vocabulary Building, P.20) states that there are six approaches to
vocabulary building. Some of them are read widely and use a dictionary. By reading different
kinds of material with large quantities, it increases your exposure to words and your
opportunities to meet new words. It will be more successful in reading if as you read, you
Nation (1998:40) stated,” There is no reason to doubt that learners incidentally gain small
text”. It means that, the reader will find the new words for each reading books. Moreover,
according to Michael Graves (2000) in Diamond and Gutlon (2006), there are four
independent reading to expand word knowledge. They explain that by reading in large
In addition, according to Ree (1978:112) mentioned that wide reading as a vehicle for
expanding vocabulary. Likewise, Mcwhorter (1989, P. 315) stated that one of the best ways
to improve your vocabulary is by reading widely and diversely. Besides that, Pigada and
Schmitt (2006: 5) mentioned that there are a number of extensive reading studies that have
found gains in vocabulary using either direct or indirect measures of vocabulary such as Cho
and Krashen (1994), Grabe and Stoller (1997), Elley and Mangubai (1981), etc. By those
statements and studies, the writer concludes that extensive reading can expand the students’
vocabulary. In which, when the students read the English text books in large quantities, they
will have repeated opportunities to find the wanted vocabulary on each their reading book. It
can help them to memorize or remind the meaning of the words well.
Furthermore, from a cognitive point of view (Renandya and Jacobs in Banford and
Day, 1998: 299), ER is particularly crucial in aiding development of three of the most
vocabulary, and knowledge of the target language. Moreover, Krashen (1993, P.23) states
that through extensive reading “we can develop a good writing style, and an adequate
vocabulary”. It means that, from cognitive point of view, extensive reading can help readers
reading on the vocabulary growth. In which, through extensive reading, the small number of
vocabulary gained in the previous reading can be strengthened or added in the next reading.
Therefore, it depends on how well extensive reading activities are managed. It proved that
smoothly. By explicitly teaching reading strategies to students, teachers can help them read
more effectively and thus with more enjoyment. Powel (2005) stated that, extensive reading
strategy can be divided into three phases. These phrases are repeated each time the student
reads a section from her book. Those phases are pre-reading stage, during reading stage, and
In the pre-reading stage includes the readers should be relax and get comfortable or
use positive self talk to build confidence and encouragement. Besides that, you can guess the
story from the cover, predict what will happen, and imagine that you are one of the characters
in the story. The goal of pre reading activity is to prepare the students for reading activity.
Nuttal (1982:27) points out that the goal of pre reading is the skill anticipation forming
While, in reading stage involves guessing exercises when you don’t know for sure and
visualize the story as it happens by reading silently. In this stage, the students find out the
meaning of unfamiliar words by guessing their meaning from context or find it in a dictionary
if it is necessary. The goal of reading activity is to give students a successful experience with
Last, after reading stage, the students share reaction to the section read with their
friends, and summarize or retell what they have read in general. Besides that, the teacher may
also give the vocabulary exercises to develop their vocabulary knowledge. Moreover, Nuttal
(1982:31) point out that in the post reading exercises, students do exercises to show their
understanding of reading books that they have read. In other words, in this stage, the teacher
checks the students’ comprehension by giving question and also checks their unfamiliar
words that they found before. Shortly, the teacher will probably organize some kinds of
The term “setting” in extensive reading is defined as how the teacher create condition
for reading in order students can get the value from reading based on their interest. This
statement is supported by Nuttal (1996: 127) stated that teachers have to create the right
condition for reading to become a valued part of every students’ life. Below are some setting
up an extensive reading program, namely, how much material should be students read?, How
can teachers evaluate students?, Should students in class or for homework or both?, At what
level of difficulty should students read?, and Should students use dictionaries while reading?.
Bamford and Day (1998:84) explain that extensive reading means reading a large
amount. How much a student read is based on their circumstances and abilities? Therefore, if
the student’s goal is to the fluent readers, the students should read as much as possible.
Shortly, the students read according their level, ability, and their interest to reading.
2. How can teachers evaluate students?
Bamford and Day (1998:86) stated that there are some methods of record keeping and
evaluation such as weekly reading diary and book reports. Weekly reading diary means
students write their names at the top and fills in the forms daily, noting down what they read
that day and for how long. If these diary forms are turned in at the end of each week to see at
a glance how much reading each student. Book reports is the students write brief summaries
of personal reactions to the books they read. Teachers can keep tract of how many reports are
submitted before handling them back to the students. So, in evaluating the students, the writer
uses book repots and weekly reading diary because they give students opportunity to express
Keith Marrow and Marita Schocker (1987: 254) in Bamford and Day (1998: 91)
stated that reading involves choice on many levels and one important aspect of choice is
“when and under what conditions the text is read”. Bamford and Day (1998: 91) stated that
out of class reading is a crucial component in building the habit of reading. The students have
to find out when and where they like to read. Where and when to read are matters of
individual choice and preference. So, there is no limitation of students to read, it can be done
in classroom or out of classroom. In addition, it also based on their choice and speed in
reading.
Bamford and Day (1998: 91) stated that for teachers who are lucky enough to have a
large library with books of various level, it is good idea for all students to begin by reading
very easy books. This will quickly build confidence and make it easier for them to begin
building both sight and general vocabularies. Reading in the second language directly without
translation and without struggle will likely be a new experience. Reading with easy material,
at the i minus 1 level, builds confidence and makes it clear to students that it is a different
kind of reading practice from what they are probably used to. So, it concludes that extensive
reading program offers what level of difficulty that students should read as follows: read very
easy book, build confidence to guest meaning, level of text must i minus 1 level.
Dupuy, Cook, and Tse’s (1995: 2) in Bamford and Day (1998: 94) stated that words
get into the habit of reading daily and out of the habit of looking everything up in the
dictionary. An orientation of extensive reading notices will therefore probably include the
instruction to never use dictionaries, and the reason for such a direction. Students who
understand what extensive reading is can be given more freedom. Having the freedom to use
dictionary allows students to get used in making decisions like this on a case by case basis.
Students learn a flexible approach to unknown words depending on the way a word is used in
the text and why one is reading the text. So, the use of dictionary here is only depending on
the students’ needs. In other words, the dictionary is freedom used by students or not.
According Bamford and Day (1998:121) the procedure of extensive reading are:
Bamford and Day (1998: 121) stated that students should choose the material that can
be read with ease and comfort. They might be told that you will be helping them in the
begging to select material that matches their reading abilities but in the end, they are the ones
who determine what they want to read. This orientation in order students can choose their
own reading text based on their pleasure and ease without pressure to read what they do not
like.
2. No Dictionaries
The students should aware that, in terms of reading, it is unnatural to be looking up
words constantly in the dictionary. Luppescu and Day (1993:287) in Bamford and Day (1998:
122) stated that students think of dictionaries as a linguistic lifeline. However, looking up
words constantly in the dictionary while reading can break the readers’ concentration. In
addition, constant dictionary means that students read less. So, students should not look up
3. Class Activities
Bamford and Day (1998: 128) stated that various classroom activities in extensive
reading can help students begin to see reading as a valuable, exciting, pleasurable, and
worthwhile activity. It means that with the variation of classroom activities in extensive
reading is to help students in reading with comfort, meaning full, enjoyable, and also it
benefits for them to read, so, all the following activities are suitable for any level of linguistic
or reading ability. It covers sustained silent reading, browsing and choosing, teachers read
aloud to students, repeated times reading, reading laboratory, and free time.
Richard Robinson and Joycelin Hullet (1991: 106) in Bamford and Day (1998: 128)
stated that view Sustained Silent Reading as “highly motivational because it encourages
Bamford and Day (1998: 128) stated that silent reading in class can also give teachers a
chance to observe individual students reading. Some students use silent reading period is
longer rather than shorter, and if the quiet teacher and students conversations do not disturb
the other students who are reading. Besides that, students’ silent reading will also improve
their motivation in reading for every person without disturbance from others in reading
process. It also can give the students change by reading and finally students realize that they
Bamford and Day (1998: 130) stated if books are shelved in the classroom, the
students can browse and select books to check out. It means that, with shelved in the
classroom can help students to look for and choose the books that they like. In other hand,
Soedarso (1988: 85-88) stated that browsing refers to skimming technique in reading while
choosing means the students scan the text that is they read directly to the points they want.
This statement shows that both skimming and scanning techniques can be applied in
Catharine Pegolo (1985:323) in Bamford and Day (1998: 130) found evidence to
suggest that reading aloud to American university students learning French helped them
acquire a “feel” for the rhythm of the target language. Where, Pegolo (1996) in Bamford and
Day (1998: 132) believes that this can help the students learn how to read in chunks or
meaningful sense group. Smith (1997:30) stated that with the use reading aloud as a way of
introducing students to reading. So, with reading aloud can be an initial strategy in promoting
extensive reading.
Thus, the writer stated that if the teacher read aloud to students, it helps students to
read fluently. By reading aloud to the class and act as role models for their students, it can
share their love of reading because reading is important enough to do and share.
Bamford and Day (1998: 132) explained that for this exercise aimed at developing
sight vocabulary, each student uses a book she or he is reading. If the students are between
books, any books or material at an appropriate level will do. So, repeated time readings can
e. Free Time
Bamford and Day (1998: 135) states that students and teacher are free to do anything
they want to do with the activities be connected to extensive reading activities. It gives
students the authority and responsibility to do what they think they need to do in the process
of learning to read. The students and teachers will free time to read whether it is from the first
Intensive reading or content study reading carefully and it is done in a brief practicing
sentence style, practicing vocabulary and general discussion are being intensive reading
technique, reading text must be chosen as good to reach better results. Moreover, in intensive
reading, students normally work with short texts with close guidance from the teacher. The
aim of intensive reading is to help students obtain detailed meaning from the text, to develop
vocabulary and grammar knowledge (Renandya and Jacobs, 1997 in Bamford and Day, 1998:
296). In other words, intensive reading is aimed to success in a full comprehension on logical
arguments. Symbolic styles, position, and author’s sense. Intensive reading comprehension
degree has a high relation with reading speed. It is closely can bee seen that reading speed
will slow down in a deepest reading comprehension. Other factor that can influence reading
Furthermore, intensive reading aims to build more language knowledge rather than
practice the skill of reading (Tse and Cook, 1996:10). Therefore, in intensive reading focus
on grammatical forms, discourse markers and other surface structure details for the purpose
of understanding literal meaning, implications, etc. It means that in intensive reading, the
students mostly read accurately, slowly for each word, sentence, or paragraph to get the
specific meaning of the text. So, the students should have to the dictionary in the intensive
reading class. The students try look up the meaning of unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
Since the students read the text based on teacher’s choice, do in class and then mostly answer
As a reading technique, Baret and Datasment (1992) in Dewi (2003: 9) said that
intensive reading has general purpose of developing and improving reading ability to read
well. They defined intensive reading is as a kind of reading which is done carefully by
looking up any familiar words to extract specific information. Reading carefully here means
that how the students get much information they read by reading each sentence carefully.
When they read, they can get main ideas versus details from reading text and learn new
vocabulary from reading text. Hence, intensive reading focuses on getting students to
According to Lewis and Hill (1992:109), intensive reading means students are
expected to understand everything what they read and be able to answer the detailed
reading approach in which students read one or very few selections. It therefore can sharpen
retention over a long period time. In other words, intensive reading refers to complete
comprehension of the text, William (1997:3768). Similarly, Tarigan (1987:12) stated that
‘intensive reading is a kind of silent reading that used to comprehend of the text content”.
Here, comprehend refers to analyzing and understanding the meaning of the text content
information and knowledge, (2) comprehension deeper the scope of material is narrow and
the manner for the reading is slow and careful, and (3) the result is reading quality
Firstly, readers have a purpose of gaining information and knowledge. It means that,
in intensive reading, the readers are planning to gather the information in the text and then the
primary object is general comprehension. The readers must identify exactly what they are
trying to retrieve from the text and can learn lot of attention to the vocabulary, grammar, and
Secondly, comprehension deeper the scope of material is narrow and the manner of
the reading is slow and careful. It means that the most important part in intensive reading is
comprehension. In this case, the reader can build up comprehension by reading carefully in
order to get much information. Moreover, Williams, (1994) cited in Diem (1992:2) states
that, intensive reading is reading which refers to extremely careful reading where the aim is
The last is reading quality. The end activity in intensive reading is the reader can
develop and improves reading quality. It means that, the reader can understand everything
interest in the topic and tasks. According to Halmer (2001:213) there are 4 roles of the
teacher when asking the students to read intensively. They are organizer, observer, feedback
As an organizer the teacher tells the students exactly what their reading purpose and
gives them clear instruction about how to achieve it, and how long they have to do this.
While, as observer the teacher asks the students to read in their own and need to give them
space to do so. It means that restraining ourselves from interrupting that reading, even though
the temptation maybe to add more information or instructions. When the students are reading,
the teacher can observe their progress since this will give us valuable information about how
well they are doing individually and collectively and will tell us whether to give them some
extra time or instead move to organizing feedback more quickly than we had anticipated.
In feedback organizer, when the students have completed the task successfully.
Teacher may star by having them compare their answer in pairs and then ask them for
answering from the class in general pr forms pairs in particular. Students often appreciate
giving paired answer like this since by sharing their knowledge; they are also sharing their
responsibility for the answer. When we ask the students to give answer, we should ask them
to say where in the text they found the information for they answer. This provokes a detailed
study of the text which will help in the next time when they come to a similar reading
passage. It also tells us exactly what comprehension problems they have and when they get
answers wrong.
As prompter, teacher may also as controllers, direct them to certain features of the text
instruction, clarifying ambiguities, and making them aware of issues of text structure which
According to Diem (1992:2) and Williams (1994 :370 in Dewi (22003: 11) mentioned
the material for intensive reading often advocate in three phase stages, namely pre reading
The first phase is intended to make learners aware of the reason why they have to read the
text. In which, it activates their relevant background knowledge which they can bring to
encounter the text more easily. In other words, at the first stage, the presentation of reading
material involves group work activities, discussion and writing, but is usually done by asking
the questions related to the text given. In theoretical terms, such as activities constituted
attempts to activate the students’ schemata. They may also provide language preparation,
motivation, and variety in the classroom. The activation their prior knowledge tends to
improve the reader comprehension and also can remind the students’ vocabulary. The goal of
pre reading activity is to prepare the students for reading activity. Nuttal (1982:27) points out
that the goal of pre reading is the skill anticipation forming prediction about what is to be
read. It is important part for effective reading since it can motivate the students to read.
Besides that, Grellet (1981:117) states that there are three goals of pre-reading activity, they
are as follows:
1. To introduce and to raise students’ interest about the topic of passage given.
pronoun reference, inference, and prediction. The goal of reading activity is to give students a
successful experience with fast and fluent reading. In other words, it explains clearly that the
goal of while reading activity is to help the students to expand reading strategy or reading
skill. So, the students will be effective and independent readers. From those activities, the
Last, post reading stage, the reader makes a conclusion about what they have studied.
Nuttal (1982:31) point out that in the post reading exercises students do exercise in the
understanding reading. This stage, the teacher checks the students’ comprehension by giving
question and also checks their unfamiliar words that they found before. In other words, the
teacher will probably organize some kind of follow-up task related to task.
Intensive reading gives valuable activities in order to expand the students’ vocabulary
growth. In intensive reading activities, teacher has important roles to help the students
develop a deeper and more accurate understanding of word meaning. If the students have a
habitual in applying of intensive reading, they will improve their comprehension about the
reading matter that they have read such as structure of words, construction of sentences
Therefore, by reading intensively, the students can enrich their English vocabulary because
In addition, intensive reading provides short texts are used to learn new vocabulary.
The improvement of the students’ vocabulary growth under intensive reading involves
looking for the meaning unfamiliar words, especially by using a dictionary. In which,
Mcwhorter (1989, P. 316) stated that a dictionary is the basic tool for expanding students’
vocabulary. It means that, the students’ comprehension depends on the word in the text that is
recognized by the students. Therefore, they can learn new vocabulary. Furthermore, Lado
(1979, 140) states that “intensive reading is admittedly one of the best ways to increase
vocabulary power”. It showed that intensive reading approach one way to increase the
students’ English vocabulary because by reading intensively, the students can comprehend
the content of reading texts in detail including the meaning of English words in the text.
From the above theories, the researcher concludes that intensive reading focuses on
getting students to concentrate on exact meaning. Besides that, the researcher point outs that
intensive reading can give contribution in expanding students’ vocabulary. In other words,
intensive reading is very useful to make the students become a good reader and improve or
In identifying word meaning in intensive reading, there are some vocabulary learning
strategies. They are guessing meaning from context and using dictionary.
When a word appears in a context that provides a lot of clues to its meaning, it is a good
opportunity to know the meaning of unfamiliar words in the text. Guessing meaning from
context is one strategy to learn vocabulary. It helps the reader make a general prediction
about meaning. According Halmer (2001:54)” when students learn new words in context,
they are more likely to remember the words”. The aims of guessing meaning is the reader to
be able to make well informed guess at the meaning of unknown word in context without
interrupting in reading.
Dictionary use is one of the steps to check if a guess is correct. Good dictionaries
provide a wealth of information about words and can help the students to fix its form in
memory. According Halmer (2001:174):”Obviously, the dictionary provides one of the best
resources for students who want to increase the number words”. It has bees shown that
students who use a bilingual dictionary learn more vocabulary than students who read
without vocabulary (Luppescu and Day, 1993: 287-288). It means that, the students mush
have a dictionary in intensive reading class in order they can look up the meaning of
Furthermore, the teacher gives the students a chance to ask questions about individual
words or gives them a chance to look them up. Moreover, according Halmer (2001: 214),
teaching vocabulary in intensive reading, the teacher limit the amount of time spent on
vocabulary checking in the following ways such as word limit and meaning consensus. In
word limit, the teacher can say that we will only answer questions about five or eight words.
And meaning consensus means that teacher asks students to work together (pair work) to
According to Palmer (1968) in Bamford and Day (1997: 10), intensive reading offers
refer to the careful reading or translation of shorter, more difficult foreign language text. Its
introduce and practice reading skills such as distinguishing the main idea of a text from
Extensive reading in contrast, is generally associated with reading large amounts with
the aim of getting an overall understanding of the material. Readers are more concerned with
the meaning of the text than the meaning of individual words or sentences. Therefore, in
extensive reading, the students focus on getting the info and reading pleasure.
activity. In which, extensive reading is often applied out of class activity. However, extensive
reading program can be done in class activity. While, intensive reading program is primarily
Furthermore, West (1955) in Bamford and Day (1997:11) states that intensive reading
is that the students do not read very much with “bottom- up” (word recognition) processes. In
contrast, the students read a lot of books with “top down” process in extensive reading class.
Moreover, extensive reading program can be the main focus of a reading course, an add-on to
ongoing reading course, or an extra-curricular activity. While, intensive reading activity only
Based on the above theories, the writer concludes the differences between extensive
and intensive reading approaches in detail as they are shown in the table below:
Table 2.1 The Differences between Extensive and Intensive Reading Approaches
CHAPTER III
the following sections: design of study, variable of the study, control of the study, population
and sample, instrument of the study, pilot study, the result of pilot study, procedure of data
collection, observer analysis, technique of testing the homogeneity of the sample, technique
This study uses true experimental design which applied two classes that are given pre-
test and post test before and after the exposure to the use of extensive and intensive reading to
the year two of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari. This study is chosen to know the comparative
between extensive and intensive reading on the student’s vocabulary growth. The scheme of
First Experiment T1 X1 T2
(Group A)
Second T3 X2 T4
Experiment
(Group B)
Where, TI is the result of pre-test and T2 is the result of post-test for extensive
reading class. While T3 is the result of pre-test and T4 is the result of post test for intensive
reading class. Next, X1 is treatment for extensive reading class and X2 is treatment for
1. Independent variable
There are two independent variables of this study. They are the exposure of Extensive
2. Dependent variable
The dependent variables in this study are the student’s vocabulary growth before and
after the exposure both Extensive and Intensive Reading Approaches. The student’s
vocabulary growth are treated as dependent variable because the vocabulary growth are the
effect of the exposure both extensive and intensive reading activities (Arikunto, 1996:101).
Furthermore, the student’s vocabulary growth before the exposure to both extensive reading
While after the exposure both extensive reading activities (post-test) is symbolized by T2 and
In relation to the design of the study, the researcher will use control of the study
2. The English teaching technique applied in teaching reading is the same, namely three
steps strategy.
3. The time used in teaching reading for both classes are similar. It is about 80 minutes for
each treatment/meeting
4. The level of test used for both classes were the same, namely fill in the blank test and
5. The The teacher combines Indonesian and English as medium of instruction in teaching
both classes.
6. The teacher uses whiteboard as media of teaching and learning process on both classes.
7. Before conducting of this study, the researcher consults with English teacher in order to
determine the appropriate time to give test and treatment to groups, extensive reading and
3.4.1 Population
The population of this study is all the year two students of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari
who enrolled in academic year 2009/2010. The total number of the year two students of SMA
Negeri 2 Kendari are 398 students. The class consists of parallel class, namely XI IPA1, XI
IPA2, XI IPA3, XI IPA4, XI IPS1, XI IPS2, XI IPS3, XI IPS4, XI IPS5. The distribution
Table 3.2 The Description at the Year Two Students of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari
1 XI IPA1 40
2 XI IPA2 37
3 XI IPA3 37
4 XI IPA4 36
5 XI IPS1 39
6 XI IPS2 38
7 XI IPS3 36
8 XI IPS4 37
9 XI IPS5 38
Total 398
3.4.2 Sample
In taking the sample of this study, the researcher will apply the purposive random
sampling because the English students’ ability all the second classes are homogenous. In
other words, those classes have same ability level. So, two classes will be determined as the
samples, they can represent of the whole year two students at SMA Negeri 2 Kendari. The
researcher will take the class XI IPA2 and class XI IPA3 as the sample which consist of 37
students in each class. Then, the researcher random these classes to determine the first and
the second experimental classes. Finally, class XI IPA2 pointed to be the first experimental
class that will be taught under extensive reading approach and class XI IPA3 pointed to be
the first experimental class that will be taught under intensive reading approach.
The instrument for getting the data of this study is vocabulary test which is made by
the researcher and some other items are taken from English for Senior High School Second
Year by Intan Pariwara in 2010. The test is arranged such a way that the students match the
word in the left column to the right or matching form test and fill in the blank test. The total
number of the test is 60 items, i.e. 20 numbers for each verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
The researcher decides that score one is given to every item of the test. Furthermore,
8, 6 – 10 = Very Good
7, 0 – 8. 5 = Good
5. 6 – 6. 9 = Fair
3. 6 – 5, 5 = Low,
Before applying real test, the test will be piloted with 15 students at class XI IPA4
who are not included the sample of the study namely at the class eight-three students at the
SMA Negeri 2 Kendari. The aim of piloting the test is to know the validity as well as the
reliability of the test. The computation of the analysis of pilot study for the validity of test,
the researcher used Person’s Product Moment formula because it was suitable to find out the
[ n (∑X2)-(∑X)2] [n (∑Y2)-(∑Y)2]
Where:
follows:
Where:
M = means score
0, 80 to 1, 00 = very high
0, 60 to 0, 79 = high
0, 40 to 0, 59 = enough
0, 20 to 0, 39 = low
especially at the year two of SMA Negeri 2 Kendari. So, before giving treatment it the real
class, the researcher needs to try out it. Besides that, the researcher is necessary to pilot
intensive reading approach to see the students’ response and to minimize the students’
difficulty during treatment as well as in extensive reading class. The pilot study of extensive
reading approach will be conducted on Wednesday at 8.00 until 9. 45 on January 10th at class
XI IPA2. While, the pilot study of intensive reading approach will be conducted on Tuesday
at 8.00 until 9. 45 on January 16th at class XI IPA3. In piloting the approach, the researcher
controls the allocation of the time and evaluation in teaching and learning process.
In collecting the data of this study, the researcher will use the following procedures as
follows:
1.) Pre-test
vocabulary achievement before doing extensive reading and intensive reading approaches.
2.) Treatment
Treatment means that the researcher gives the students two treatments, extensive
reading and intensive reading approach by applying three phase strategy. This study was
conducted in six meetings for each class. Every meeting lasted 80 minutes for each class.
3.) Post-test
The function of the post-test is to know the student’s vocabulary growth after giving
them the treatment. The following table describes the students’ activities during conducting
this study.
3. 8 Observer
In doing treatment, the researcher will be helped by the English teacher of the school
as the observer to check the teaching procedures that are used by the teacher when he was
teaching. Besides that, the purpose of giving observation sheet is to see the researcher’s
consistency in applying two approaches. The observer will observe two groups namely the
classes under extensive reading and intensive reading approaches. Before the observer
observes the class, the researcher trains her to use a classroom observation sheet checklist.
All the data will be analyzed by using statistical technique; they are descriptive and
inferential statistic. Descriptive statistic is used to describe the result of the study for both
classes and inferential statistic was used to test the hypothesis. The researcher will use two
tailed test (Hatch and Lazaraton puw, 1991 in Mappe, 2000:52) to find out data about
student’s vocabulary growth after doing treatment, extensive reading and intensive reading
approaches.
t= X1 – X2
S 1 1
N1 N2
S= ( N1-1) S12+(N2-1)S22
N1 + N2 -2
Where:
The standard deviation shows the variation of the data. If the standard deviation is
low, the students’ score are not varied. On the contrary, if the standard deviation is high, the
1. If t test > t table is accepted, it means that there is a significant difference of applying
Reading Approach on students’ vocabulary growth to the year two of SMA Negeri
4 Kendari.
2. If t test < t table is rejected, it means that there is not a significant difference of
3. 12 Teaching Procedures
2. The teacher calls the students to choose the book that they want to read based on their
3. The teacher asks the students to guess the story from the cover and the teacher also gives
general picture about the books that the students will read
4. The teacher provides 15 of other words target with its meaning in Indonesian as a guide in
reading
5. Teacher asks students to read the book in classrooms with sustained silent reading about
20-30 minutes
6. Teacher asks the students to retell the content of the book in general after reading or write
7. The teacher asks the students to do vocabulary tasks such as identifying part of speech and
translate the meaning of the target words or the teacher review of unfamiliar or target
4. The teacher asks the students to read the whole text intensively
5. The teacher asks the students to list unfamiliar words in reading text such as nouns, verb,
and adjectives
6. The teacher asks the students to write the meaning of unfamiliar words by guessing their
7. The teacher asks the students to answer the following questions in reading text.
8. The teacher asks the students to make sentences based on unfamiliar words that the
students listed
10 The teacher asks students to make conclusions about the topic given
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