Correlation of Idiomatic Mastery and Reading
Correlation of Idiomatic Mastery and Reading
Undergraduated Thesis
By
MELINA AYU PRATIWI
NPM. 1811040404
By:
MELINA AYU PRATIWI
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this thesis entitled, “The Correation Betweeen Student’ Mastery of
Idiomatic Expresssion and Their Reading Comprehension in the Second Semester” is
completely my own work. I’m fully aware that I have quoted some statements and ideas from
various sources and they are properly acknowledged in this thesis.
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DEDICATION
2. My beloved sister and brother, Dhea Ananda Apriia and Ahza Aqhilla Luthfi
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KEMENTERIAN AGAMA RI
UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI RADEN INTANLAMPUNG
FAKULTAS TARBIYAH DAN KEGURUAN
Alamat : Jl. LetkolEndroSuratminSukarame Bandar Lampung Telp. (0721)703289
APPROVAL
Advisor, Co-advisor,
The Chairperson of
English Educational Program
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MOTTO
ا ْلُم َتَو ِّكِلي َن ُيِح ُّب ال َّلَه ِإَّن ۚ ال َّلِه َعَلى َّكْل َف َتَو َع َز ْم َتا َف ِإ َذ
Then when you taken a decision, put your trust in Allah, Allah loves those who put their trust in
him.
(Ali Imran: 159) 1
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Departemen Agama RI. Al- Quran Tajwid Dan Terjemahnya. PT Syamil Cipta Media. 2006 P.71
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The researcher’s name is Melina Ayu Pratiwi. Her nickname is Melina. She was born in
Tulang Bawang, January 12nd, 2001. She is the first child of Mr. Heriantoni and Mrs. Nani
Rohyani. She began her study at SDN 1 Panggung Jaya and graduated in 2012. After that, she
continued her study at SMP Negeri 2 Way Pengubuan and graduated in 2015. After she finished
from junior high school, continued her study at SMA Negeri 1 Way Pengubuan and graduated in
2018. Then, she continued her study at State Islamic University of Raden Intan Lampung as a
student of English Education Study Program of Tarbiyah and teacher Training Faculty.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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In the name of Allah, the Almighty, the most beneficent and the most merciful, for
blessing the researcher with His mercy and guidance to finish this thesis. The peace is upon our
prophet Muhammad SAW, as well as his family and followers.
This thesis is presented to the English Education Study Program of State Islamic
University Raden Intan Lampung in order to submitted as compulsory fulfillment of the
requirements for S1 degree.
The researcher would like sincerely thank to the following people for their ideas, times,
guidances, and support for this thesis:
1. Prof. Dr. Hj. Nirva Diana, [Link]. The dean of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty, State
Islamic University Raden Intan Lampung.
2. Prof. Dr. Moh. Muhassin, [Link]. The Chairperson of English Education Study Program of
State Islamic University Raden Intan Lampung.
3. Yulan Puspita Rini, [Link]. The Advisor for giving guidance and help to finish the thesis.
4. Istiqomah Nur Rahmawati, [Link]. The Co-Advisor for giving guidance and help to finish the
thesis.
5. The English Department Lecturers in State Islamic University Raden Intan Lampung.
6. Sri Mulyati, [Link]., M.M., the headmaster of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan for allowing her to
conduct the research.
7. The English Teacher and all staffs and teacher in SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan for being helpful
and giving suggestion during the research process.
8. The researcher’s friends, heavy rain with million memories, Anida Triyana Putri, Novita
Sari, Nila Nur Fauziah, Bella Aliska, Mega Suryani.
Finally, it has to be admitted that nobody is perfect and the researcher is fully aware that
there are still many weaknesses in this thesis. Therefore, the researcher sincerely welcomes
criticisms and suggestions from the readers to enhance the quality of this thesis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Pages
ABSTRACT..........................................................................................................................ii
DECLARATION..................................................................................................................iii
DEDICATION......................................................................................................................iv
APROVAL............................................................................................................................v
MOTTO................................................................................................................................vi
CURRICULUM VITAE......................................................................................................vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...................................................................................................viii
TABLE OF CONTENTS.....................................................................................................ix
LIST OF TABLES...............................................................................................................xi
LIST OF APPENDICES.....................................................................................................xii
LIST OF FIGURES..........................................................................................................................xiii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................1
A. Title of Confirmations..........................................................................................1
B. Background of the problems ...............................................................................1
C. Identification and limitation of the Problems ......................................................5
D. Formulation of the Problem.................................................................................5
E. Objective of the Research....................................................................................5
F. Significance of the Research................................................................................5
G. Relevant study......................................................................................................5
H. Systematic of The Research.................................................................................7
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A. Conclusion......................................................................................................31
B. Recommendation............................................................................................31
1. For the English Teacher............................................................................31
2. For the Students........................................................................................31
3. For Future Researcher..............................................................................31
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................
APPENDICES .....................................................................................................................
LIST OF APPENDICES
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Appendix 1: Result of Preliminary Research......................................................................
Appendix 2: Result of Questionnaire in Preliminary Research...........................................
Appendix 3: The Students’ Name.......................................................................................
Appendix 4: Syllabus...........................................................................................................
Appendix 5: Reading Comprehension and Idiomatic Tests before Validity.......................
Appendix 6: Reading Comprehension and Idiomatic Tests after Validity..........................
Appendix 7: Expert Validation Form..................................................................................
Appendix 8: Research Letter Permission............................................................................
Appendix 9: Research Letter...............................................................................................
Appendix 10: Research Documentation..............................................................................
LIST OF TABLES
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Tables 1.1 The Mean Score of Students Tenth Grade in Reading Comprehension........................4
Tables 2.1 Idiomatic Expression............................................................................................9
Tables 3.1 Blue Print of Reading Comprehension After Validity.........................................20
Tables 3.2 Blue Print of Idiomatic Expression After Validity...............................................21
Tables 3.3 Classificatiton of the student’s Mastering Idiomatic Expression........................21
Tables 3.4 Classificatiton of the student’s Reading Comprehension....................................22
Tables 3.5 Criteiria of Reiliability...........................................................................................23
Tables 4.1 Normality Test Data.............................................................................................27
Tables 4.2 The Linearity Data................................................................................................27
Tables 4.3 SPSS IBM Correlation between Idiomatic Expression and Students’
Reading comprehension......................................................................................28
Tables 4.5 The Index of Correlation......................................................................................28
LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1: Students’ Score of Idiomatic Expression.................................................................25
Figure 2: Students’ Score of Reading Comprehension...........................................................26
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Title Confirmation
Firstly, to understand the research title and avoid misunderstanding, the researcher explained the
research title. This research was entitled “The correlation between students’ mastery of idiomatic
expression and their reading comprehension in the second semester at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way
Pengubuan in the academic year 2023/2024”. For the description, some terminology was contained in
the research title.
1. Correlation
Correlation measures the strength of a relationship between two or more variables.0 The
correlation in this research refered to the measure between students of idiomatic expression and
their reading comprehension achievement.
2. Mastering Idiomatic Expression
Mastering idiomatic expression is the ability of students to comprehend the element of
idiomatic expression and have good accuracy of idiom comprehension increases during
childhood and adolescence and improves in adulthood.0 This research focused on measuring
students mastering idiomatic expression in recount text by students tenth-grade. Idiomatic
expression is indispensable to the daily speech of the people and to the language of newspaper
and books, televisions and movies.
3. Achievement
Achievement is the result of what an individual has learned from some educational
experience.0 In this research achievement refers to student’s achievement in reading
comprension.
4. Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is the reader's ability to comprehend the text they read. The reader
needs a lot of effort to understand the text because everyone has different background
knowledge. There are some people would have a piece of broader background knowledge,
while others do not.0
Based on the description of the title confirmations above, this research focused on
The Correlation between students’ mastery of Idiomatic Expression and Their Reading
Comprehension in the second Semester of The tenth Grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan In the
Academic Year 2023/2024.
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Patrick Schober, Christa Boer, & Lothar Schwarte, Correlation Coefficients: Appropriate Use ad Interpretation,
Journal of University Medical Center, Vol.12 No 13. 2018,
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Peter Newmark, Approaches to translation, (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1995). p.21
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John Travers, Fundamentals of Educational Psychology, (Cranton Pensylvania : International Textbook Company,
1987), p. 44.
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Kristin Lems, Leah Miller, and Tenena, Teaching Reading to English Language Learners, (New York: The Guildford
Press, 2010), p. 170.
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speakers’ thought processes. It is estimated that there are at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the
English language.0
Mainly the students are challenged and make a wrong in interpreting the idiom, so what
makes the idiom difficult? The answer is its meaning. Idioms are not easy to understand, especially
for non-native speakers, because their meanings are usually metaphorical. This idiom characteristic
makes English learners strange and difficult to understand. English Second Language learners will
need to familiarize themselves with the meaning and usage of each idiom. Using common idioms and
expressions will make English Second Language learners sound more native. Thus, it is a good idea
to master some of these expressions. Idioms comprehension is particularly challenging for students
whose first language is not English. L2 idioms proficiency presents a distinctive challenge because
idiomatic expressions comprise stereotyped structures with conventionalized meanings, allowing only
limited usage variability.0
The frequent occurrence of idioms in everyday language has made the comprehension of
idioms for English Second Language students essential. Idioms come up in written and verbal forms.
Thus, idioms have an important pragmatic function in the language because learning a language is not
simply developing a linguistic system and familiarizing it with the meaning of each word. According
to Gass and Selinker, the significance of idioms, considering that nonnative speakers are included to
find lexical errors more unsettling than grammatical errors when communicating with a native
speaker.0 This would be possible if there were an awareness of the processes and the factors involved
in comprehending idioms. Such awareness can help language teachers, language practitioners, and
material developers in decision-making, which would, in turn, lead to the development of a better
curriculum.
The English language is full of idioms and other figurative aspects. Therefore, mastery of
English idioms enables students to learn the English language quickly. Understanding the lexicon of
English demands more than just knowing the denotative meaning of words. It also requires its reader
to understand the connotative word and, more importantly, figurative language, especially in reading
recount text. According to Nippold Idiomatic expression is a language style that native speakers of
English usually use to communicate naturally. It is a kind of expression that cannot be understood
from the literal meanings of the words of which they are composed. 0 An idiom is a group of words in
a fixed order with a particular meaning that differs from the meanings of each word understood on its
own. Considering that importance, the researcher assumed that students must learn idiomatic
expressions. However, the problem is that it is not easy to make English as foreign language learners
understand and comprehend the text by using an idiomatic expression in recount text.
Reading is one of receptive skills. A receptive skill is a passive skill. Meanwhile, reading is
not totally passive, because reading requires a reader to receive the messages, process in the brain,
and make understanding on what has been delivered by a researcher. This skill is not easy because it
requires many knowledge and comprehension. If the reader fails to comprehend the message, she or
he also fails in reading.0Reading, arguably the most essential skill for success in all educational
0
Wati, Problems iin teaching idioms through recount text at SMAN 5 Seram Bagian Barat. Journal of UMM
vol.4no.2.2017. p.12
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Raymond Gibbs, Linguistic factors in children’s understanding of idioms, Journal of Child Language, 1987, 14(3),
569-586. [Link]
understanding-of-idioms/76CC2B305A434CF808BC029628B512AE accessed on 10 October 2022
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Gass, Susan & Larry Selinker, Second language acquisition: An introductory course (2ndEdt.). (Hillsdale, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum 2001), p.21
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Marilyn Nipold & Catherine Taylor, Idiom understanding in youth: Further examination of familiarity and
transparency, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995, 38(2), 426-433.
[Link] accsessed on 10 October 2022.
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Tias Atma Andriani, The Relationship Between Idiom Mastery And Reading Comprehension, (Jakarta: un
undergraduated thesis UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2014), p. 1
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2022
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Douglas, Brown, Language Assessment Principles And Classroom Practice, (New York: Pearson Education, 2004),
p. 185
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Marilyn Nipold & Catherine Taylor, Idiom understanding in youth: Further examination of familiarity and
transparency, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995, 38(2), 426-433.
[Link] accsessed on 10 October 2022.
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Lidya Casteliana, “Students Ability in Understanding Idiomatic Expression and Reading Comprehension”,
(undergraduate thesis by Riau: Universitas Islam Negeri Riau, 2011), p. 2.
[Link]
ZTQ2MGQ2ZTE5Y2U2OTljMDQ5MDViNzMxMmE5NWYwMGZjNTljOTRlMQ==.pdf accsess on 10 october 2022
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Sridhar Maisa and Karunakaran, “Idioms and Importance of Teaching Idioms to ESL Students: A Study on Teacher
Beliefs”, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (AJHSS), Vol 1 Issue 1, (May, 2013), p.111.
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There was the score of students reading comprehension in the mean score description on the
below:
Table 1.1
The Mean Score of Students Tenth Grade in Reading Comprehension at SMAN 1
Way Penguban 2023/2024
The Totals The Mean
No Class Students Score
1 XA 35 50.83
2 XB 35 41.43
3 XC 33 51.45
4 XD 35 40.24
Total 138
Sources: Documentation of English teacher at SMAN 1 Pengubuaan
Based on the table of mean score students reading Comprehension it can be seen from the 128
students they were got the mean score in lower of standar competences as follows 70, it can be seen
that the students reading comprehension are still lower. Moreover, this case may happen when the
students are not aware of the idioms that they read in the text. This emphasizes that idioms must be
noted in reading because it also influences reading comprehension. The result of the students
interviewed is that they mostly cannot understand the reading text because it is difficult for them to
know the meaning of each word, and lack of vocabulary is the problem. On another side, they usually
know the meaning but cannot know the true meaning of each sentence in the text.
As Maria defined, students mastering idiomatic expression is one of the factors affecting for
students reading comprehension achievement because, if idiom comprehension is related to general
abilities in processing linguistic information, skilled text comprehends should also be better at
comprehensive and idiomatic expression than children with poorer text comprehension skills. In other
words, a child's comprehension skills should be strongly related to the students’ reading ability. 0 It
means the idiom mastery must be directly proportional to the aim of reading comprehension. It can be
said that students who master idioms well get better in reading comprehension.
In this research, the researcher chose recount text because this text usually written in informal
sentence, so that it is indicated that there must be idiom contained in recount text. Idiomatic
expressions are basically phrases where the meaning of the entire phrase does not necessarily
perfectly match the meanings of the words that make up the phrase. 0 Then, recount text is a text that
talks about daily story that had happened. The writer of recount text was probably writing the text
with some idioms. Students could learn informal sentence in form of idiom from recount text.
Therefore, recount text was match for the case of finding correlation between idiomatic expression
and reading comprehension.
Based on the phenomenon this research conducted with the titled “The Correlation between
Students’ Mastery of Idiomatic Expression and their Reading Comprehension at the second Semester
of the Tenth Grade at SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan in the Academic Year 2023/2024”
0
Maria Chaira Levorato, Barbara, and Cristina Reading Comprehension and Understanding Idiomatic
Expression :Developmentlal study Brain Language (vol 91 no 3.2004).p.305.
[Link] accsess on 10 october 2022
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Mukhammad, Nur Ikhsan; Aziza, Anastasya Putri; Simanjuntak, Marudut Bernadtua. Analysis Of Idiom Expression
Found in The Sequel Movie Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). In: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’NATIONAL
SEMINAR. 2022. p. 130-134.
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G. Relevant Research
1. The first relevant research by Cain, Oakhill and Lemmon investigated “The Relation between
Children reading comprehension level and their comprehension of idioms there were 56 idioms
used in this study namenly, 14 for each type namely” transparent, real opaque, novel transparen,
t and novel opaque, the participants were 28 causian children from urban schools, and the
majority of them were from lower middle-class families. The children were tested individually.
The findings revealed that children were slightly more likely to recognize more likely to be
interpected nire correctly than the novel expressions. 0
0
Kate Cain, Jane Oakhill, Kate Lemmon, The Relation between Childrens reading comprehension lavel and their
comprehension of idioms, Journal of Experimental psychology Vol 2 no1 2018, p 65
[Link] access on 10 october 2022
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2. Another study about the Advantages and importance of learning and using idioms in English by
Eliana Edith the purpose to share the results of a small-scale project based on guding students in
the use of idioms through dialogues and readings. In otder to improve students speaking skills.
The project was applied and the data findings demonstrated that by learning a dusing some
idioms, the learners were abel to increase their knowledge about idioms. They learned new
vocabulary, and improve their communication skills. 0
3. The third relevant research by Nasution entitled “The Correlation between students mastering of
idiomatic and their reading comprehension achievement” this study used correlation research
design in quantitative tu measure the correlate between two variables. The instrument used were
observation and documentation to collected the data. Based on the research finding the result
there is positive correlation between the student’s idiomatic mastery and their reading
achievement. 0
4. The next previous research by TA Andriani entitled the relationship between idiom mastery and
students reading comprehension. This research aimd to measure the relation between both
variabels, by using interviewed and documentation as the instrument. Based on the data finding
it can be seen that there was significance correlation between idiomatic mastery and their
reading comprehension.0
5. The last previous research by Laela entitled “Students Understanding of Idiom and their reading
comprehension of recount text, this research used correlational study in quantitative, the aimd to
measure the correlated of both variable. To collected the data this research used the test and
documentation. Based on the analyzed of the data it can be concluded that there is has
correlation between understanding idiom and their reading comprehension in recount text. 0
Based on the relevant research that had been explained, the similarities between this
research and all of the relevant research were in the first relevant research looked up the
correlation between idiomatic mastery and students’ reading comprehension of children
students, and this research focused on the same variables but in the different subject, this
research measured for twelve students’ senior high school. The second relevant research
measures the same topic to measure idiomatic but just to know the advantages and
disadvantages, it has differences with this research that focused to measure the correlation
between students' mastery idiomatic and their reading comprehension. The third relevant
research focused to know the correlation between students' idiomatic expression and their
reading achievement, the differentiation was in the instrument this research used a reading
comprehension test and idiomatic expression test, but the relevant research used the
questionnaire. The next relevant research has similarities with this research on the topic and
variables, but this research was measuring at senior high schools students that different from the
relevant research that focused on collage students, the last relevant research was conducted to
measure the relationship between two variables and this research also did that but this research
was conducted at senior high school.
A. Theoretical Framework
1. Idiomatic Expression
Idiom (also called idiomatic expression) is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative
meaning conventionally understood by native speakers. This meaning is different from the literal
meaning of the idiom's individual elements.0In other words, idioms don't mean exactly as the
words literal meaning. They have, however, hidden meaning.
According to Geines idiomatic expression give English its color and vitality. Idiomatic
expressions are indispensable to the daily speech of the people and to the language of newspaper
and books, televisions and movies. 0 Mastering idioms requires a great deal of listening, studying,
practice and usage. We cannot ignore this part of the language, idiomatic expressions and more
formal grammar should be given equal time.
Moreover, Abbas and Nahid argue that an idiom is a phrase or sentence whose meaning is not
clear from the meaning of individual words and which must be learnt as a whole unit. 0 In other
words, the meaning of an idiomatic expression is not the sum of the individual words. So to
understand the meaning of idioms, the reader cannot translate or separate the words into a single
part of semantic unit because the meaning of the idiom can be interpreted by interrelate of its
words.
Idiom takes many different forms or structure. An idiom can have a regular structure, an
irregular or even grammatically incorrect structure. 0These are the special features of some idioms,
but the other idioms are completely regular and logic in their grammar and vocabulary. Because
of the special features of some idioms, learners have to learn the idiom as a whole and cannot
change any part of it.
Many definitions about idioms mentioned above, they can be concluded that an idiom is an
expression, phrase, or group of words that has different meaning from the individual word as part
of it. It cannot be translated word by word, but the meaning of idiom is the meaning of a whole
word. Idioms are sometimes irrational and ungrammatically, but another idioms are rational and
fixed grammatical. It can be understood by guessing from the context. Below are the examples of
idiomatic expression that often uses for daily communication:
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Sondang Rumahorbo, The Students’ Mastery In Translating Indonesian Idiomatic Expression To English By Using
Equivalence Translation, Journal of Linguistic and Literature, Vol.1 No.2 , 2011, p. 10
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Barbara K. Geines, Idiomatic American English, (London: Kodansha International, 1986), p. 7
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Abbas Ali Zarei and Nahid Rahimi, Idioms: Etymology, Contextual Pragmatic Clues, and Lexical Knowledge in
Focus, (Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012), p. 9
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Jennifer Seidl, English Idioms and How to Use Them, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 11.
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Table 2.1
Idiomatic Expression0
Idiomatic expression Meaning Function
Bad apple Bad person People can use this idiom to describe
someone who is not nice and maybe even
criminal.
Behind you Supportive When you are “behind” someone, you are
saying that they have your support.
Break the ice Start a conversation When you start a conversation stranger with
the end goal of making new friends.
Chasing rainbow Persuing dreams When you try to follow your dreams. The
implication here, however, is that you might
be better off forgetting your dreams.
Clear as mud Hard to understand When you are confused about something or a
situation.
Crystal clear Easy to understand When you say that something is “crystal
clear”, you are saying that it is understood.
Meanwhile, Ball in the book explained that idiom have features of language in idiomatic
expression as follows:
1) Ordinary grammatical usages
This kinds of feature of idiomatic that is use the tenses in the sentences as follows:
It is time we went home
The mean of that sentences if someone come tomorrow, I will pay you back the dollar I
owe you.
Went is a past tense, come is a present tense, and both frefer in their contexts to future
situation.
2) Deviation from strict grammar
Many colloquial uses are strictly speaking ‘ungrammatical.’Example: We
normally say, “It’s me” (him, her, them) and not “it is I” (he, she, they). We say, “It is
ages since we met”, “he is a friend of mine” (not “of me”), and, quite often, “which do
you like best?” although only two things are being compared.
3) Allusive expression
A kind of expression appears to have uncomplicated interpretation, but idiomatically
means something quite different. It is usually impossible to its meaning
Example: That will do. (That is enough)
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Hashempour, R., & Villavicencio, A, Leveraging contextual embeddings and idiom principle for detecting
idiomaticity in potentially idiomatic expressions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cognitive Aspects of the
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That is enough for the time being. (That is enough for now)What are they up to? (There is
something odd, what are they planning?) Let’s call it a day. (Let’s stop work now)
4) Conventional phrase of many kinds
Most of these are phrases, which people use carelessly but the meaning is quite
unusual Now then, my friend, you can not stand there all night, you know.” (The phrase
“Now then” is used when we call someone’s attention to an activity which we want him
to stop, or, with a different intonation, the continuation of an argument.)
Then there are phrases “now and then” and “every now and then” with the meaning
occasionally, or from time to time.
5) Many uses of the phrasal verb
Examples: I can’t make out what he is doing (= understand) Don’t let on I told you (=
tell anybody, reveal
I can’t put up with it any longer (= endure it)
He laid on a band for the next events (= arranged for a band to play).
6) The phenomenon of English word order
The words are the same but a small change in word order makes a big difference
in meaning:
a) It’s time to go, isn’t it? (Answer expected “yes”) It
isn’t time to go, is it? (Answer expected “no”)
b) It may well be ahead of time. (It may well be- probably is)
c) It may be well ahead of time. (Well ahead- well in advanced of schedule time.)
d) You’ve got to say thank to Ms. Tjoo for it. (Got to thank = must thank.) You’ve
got Ms. Tjoo to say thank for it (Got Ms. Tjoo to thank = hold her responsible for
something, maybe something not good happened)
7) The picturesque and metaphorical types of idiom
Idiom is synonymous with the picturesque phrase and the more heavily stimulating
their conversation is with the better they are [Link] of this type of idiom are:
To burn one’s boat (= to make retreat impossible)
To hit nail on the head (= to reach the right conclusion)
To be in clover (= to be lucky, or happy conditions).0
0
Khofiana Mabruroh, An Analysis Of Idioms And Their Problems Found In The Novel The Adventures Of Tom
Sawyer By Mark Twain, Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1, (Agustus, 2015), p. 3-4
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Nida, Eugene & Taber, Charles, The Theory and Practice of Idiom and Translation, (New York: SAGE Publication),
p.20
0
Ibid
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Widya Hasanah, An Analyze students’ vocabulary mastery at the second grade of MTS TI Batu Belah in academic
year 2016/2017, Journal of English language and education, Vol 3 No 2 2018) Retrieved from:
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0
Sridhar Maisa and Dr. T. Karunakaran, “Idioms and Importance of Teaching Idioms to ESL Students: A Study on
Teacher Beliefs” Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (AJHSS), Vol 1 Issue 1, (May, 2013), p. 111.
0
Sameer S. Aljabri, “EFL Students‟ Judgments of English Idiom Familiarity and Transparency”, Journal of Language
Teaching and Research, Vol. 4, No. 4 (July 2013), p. 662. URL :
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Liu Yongjin, The Current Situation and Issues of the Teaching of English Speech Culture Research, Vol. 21, No. 4
( May 2012), p. 12.
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In transparent idioms, the literal and figurative meanings are closely related. For example, in
go by the book, the figurative meaning – to follow the directions exactly – is closely related to the
literal meaning, whereas in keep your shirt on the figurative meaning –remain calm – is unrelated
to the literal meaning –to continue wearing ones shirt.
They believe that idioms are clearly presented in academic settings; consequently, failure to
comprehend idioms could affect academic performance, written composition, reading
comprehension, and vocabulary, especially because the occurrence of idioms in classroom
language increases as students advance in age and grade. 0 Several language researchers have
common believe that a sound knowledge of idioms is required or English language
proficiency and fluency, and a lack of such knowledge can cause significant
misunderstanding Thus, it becomes clear that idioms are very important in EFL/ESL contexts
where L2 learners’ language proficiency might be assessed on the basis of their
understanding of idiomatic expression. This means that the more idioms one knows, the more
native-like one’s English will sound.
3. Reading Comprehension
Comprehension is the center reading.0According to Caldwell, comprehension is the
ability to understand completely and be familiar with a situation and fact. Comprehension starts
from move the words on the page to the meaning in the mind, recognize individual words using
memory and knowledge of letter and sound patterns, match the resulting pronunciations with
meanings, and finally connect these words into idea units. 0 It means a person's ability to
understand context based on what is read or heard.
Reading comprehension is intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed
through interactions between text and reader. 0It means that reading comprehension is a process in
which the reader constructs meaning using material, information in the text and the reader's
knowledge.0
According to Woolley, reading comprehension is the process of making meaning from
text. Therefore, the aim is to gain an overall understanding of what is described in the book rather
than getting meaning from isolated words or sentences0
It can be said that reading comprehension is the process to make sense as a whole what is
described in the text. Based on the explanation, it can be concluded that reading comprehension is
a process of interaction between the reader and the text, understanding the meaning and purpose
contained in the text.
a. Components of Reading comprehension
Brown classifies eight aspects of reading comprehension, namely:
1) Main idea
This is the ability of students in interpreting main idea in the text.
2) Expression/idiom/phrases in context
The expression/idioms/ phrases in the text
3) Inferences (implied detail)
The students understanding about the inferences in the text
4) Grammatical features
5) Vocabulary
6) Detail (scanning for a specifically stated detail)
7) Excluding fact not written (unstated details).0
0
Lundblom, E., & Woods, J. Working in classroom: Improving idiom comprehension through class wide peer
tutoring. Communication Disorder Quarterly, 33,2012,P. 202-219. [Link]
0
Karen Tankersley, Threads of Reading: Strategy for Literacy Development, (Beauregard: Library of Congress
Cataloging in Publication Data, 2003), p.23
0
Joanne Schudt Caldwell, Comprehension Assessment a Classroom Guide, (New York: The Guild Press, 2008), p.5
0
Paula Clarke and Dean Chesher, Developing reading comprehension, (New York: The Guilford Press, 2014), p.5
0
Karen Tankersley, Threads of Reading: Strategy for Literacy Development, (Beauregard: Library of Congress
Cataloging in Publication Data, 2003), p.23
0
Gary Woolley, Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties, (New York: Springer Science,
2011)p.15
0
Douglas Brown, Language Assessment Principle and Classroom Practices, (New York: Longman Person, 2014).
p.206
14
Based on the explaination above it can be concluded that the students knows about
main idea, expression/idiom/phrases in context, inferences (implied detail), grammatical
features, detail (scanning for a specifically stated detail), excluding fact not written (unstated
details), supporting ideas, and vocabulary in context.
b. Basic Skills in Reading Comprehension
Reading is very important thing because reading is basic skill before speaking, and
writing ability, there is communication between the reader and the writer when someone
reads. The writers deliver the message in written from and the readers could understand the
content of messagess. So, the reading became active in reading. According to Klingner,there
are fundamental skill in reading comprehension as follows:
a. Word Reading The ability of the reader to get to know the word and understand a
reading, and Students must know how to read or decode
b. Fluency The ability of the reader to recognize the word and understand the reading at
the same time.
c. Vocabulary Understanding vocabulary means comprehend what the words mean.
When vocabulary mastery improves, comprehending will be deeper. Since
comprehension is ultimate goal of reading. With understanding vocabulary knowing
what the words mean in context.
d. Word Knowledge having sufficient background knowledge to benefit from reading
text.0
One of them is to make it easier for readers to understand the text. Based
on the explanation above, the researcher concludes that reading needs to be
equipped with basic understanding reading skills or fundamental skill in reading
to make it easier for readers to understand the texts.
c. Factors of Affecting Reading Comprehension
According to Vaughn and Thompson comprehension is the active constructing meaning
from text. It involves accessing previous knowledge, understanding vocabulary and concepts,
making inferences, and linking key ideas. Comprehension cannot be learned through rote
instruction, but requires a series of strategies that influence understanding of text. Reading
comprehension includes:
1) Applying one’s knowledge and experiences to the text. b. Setting goals for reading
and ensuring that they are aligned with the text.
2) Using strategies and skills to construct meaning during and after reading.
3) Adapting strategies that match the reader’s text and goals.
4) Recognizing the author’s purpose.
5) Distinguishing between facts and opinions. 0
Drawing logical conclusion. In line with the explanation above, we know that reading
comprehension is the ability to take information from written text and do something with it in
a way that demonstrates knowledge or understanding of that information.
d. Levels of Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a process of making sense of written ideas through
meaningful interpretation and interaction with language. Reading comprehension is best
viewed as a multifaceted process affected by several thinking and language abilities.
1) Level of Comprehension
In teaching reading comprehension, the teacher should be aware of levels of
comprehension, so that they have some criteria by which to judge the materials they use in
the classroom, and also the level of comprehension uses by the students at any particular
0
0
Alexander, Teaching reading (USA: Little Brown and Company,1997), p.133.
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4. Text
Siahaan and Shinoda stated that a text is meaningful language in a contexts, it is both a spoken
and write text.0 Therefore text is a writing form or result of the writer result. Write text is any
meaningful write text. The writer assumes that text is some sentences in write text and the readers
can get information from the text.
a. Kinds of text
Text is when these words are put together to communicate a meaning, a piece a text is
created. Pardiyono said that there are 9 kinds of text that must be taught by students.
1) Descriptive text
Descriptive is the type of text that describes an object.
2) Recount text
Recount text is the type of text about information in the past event.
3) Narrative text
Narrative text is the type of text about problematic story that has a climax and document as a
solution in the end of the story. The story can be a fiction such as legend, fairytale, myth,
and fable.
4) Procedure text
Procedure text is the type of text to describe how something is accomplished through a
sequence of actions or steps.
0
Eve Zyzik, Charlene Polio, Authentic Materials Myths : Applying Second Language Research to Classroom
Teaching, (United States of America : 2017), p.1.
0
Sanggam Siahaan And Kosno Shinoda, Generic Structure Text (Yogyakarta: Graha Ilmu, 2008), P.1
16
5) Explanation text
Explanation text is the type of text to explain the processes involved in the formation or
workings of natural or socio-cultural phenomena.
6) Report text
Report text is the type of text to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of
natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment.
7) Exposition text
Exposition text is the type of text about argument or opinion of someone to perceive the
problem.
8) Discussion text
Discussion text is the type of text to present (at least) two points of view about an issue.
9) News item
News item is the type of text about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or
important.0
Based on the explanation above this research focus to measure students reading
comprehension in recount text, recount text is the type of the text that tells the factual story, truly
story the context of this study is measure to now the students’ reading comprehension in the text.
b. Recount text
Many experts tried to define the meaning of recount text. According to Knapp and
Watkins, the Recount text describes an event that has accrued in the past. 0 It means that Recount
is a kind of text that retells events or experiences in the past. According to Anderson, recount
text is speaking or writing about past events or a piece of text that retells past events, usually in
the order in which they happened.0 Recount text means the form of the text talking about
someone's experience in the past, therefore the experience of the readers themselves, such as
their adventure and days activities. It means that recount text is a text which retells the event in
the past. Moreover, according to Knapp and Watkins, the purpose of recount text is to
reconstruct past events in the time order in which they occurred.0
Reading recount text usually can make the reader imagine the incidents which the writer
tells. The purpose of recount text is to retail a series of events, usually, in the order, they
occurred. In another word, the purpose of recount text is to inform the readers about something
that has already happened. There is a generic structure that is in recount text:
1) Orientation: the orientation supplies the background information. It establishes the time,
setting, and who or what participating.
2) Series of events: sequence events that happened from the beginning until the end.
3) Re-orientation: this is an optional stage and is often used to complete the writing by
rounding off the series of events.0
Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that recount text is a text that talks
about something that happened in the past to give information about what has already
happened. Recount text consist of three parts, namely orientation, series of event, and re-
orientation. orientation mentions when the events happened, who was involved, what
happened, and where the events took place. Series of events text what happened in sequence.
Reorientation is the ending of the story.
0
Pardiyono, Aku Pasti Bisa:the Art of Teaching, (Yogyakarta: Andi Publisher, 2010), p.27-38
0
Knapp, P. & Watkins, M, Genre, Text, Grammar: Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing, (Sydney,
Australia: University of New South Wales Press, Ltd, 2005), p.12
0
Anderson, M. & Anderson, K, Text Types in English 1, (South Yarra, Victoria: MacMillan Education Australia,
2003), p.112
0
Knapp and Watkins, Op, Cit
0
Anderson, M. & Anderson, K, Op, Cit
17
0
Biber, D. & Conrad, S, Register, Genre, and Style, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p.32
0
Ibid
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comprehension. The more students getting know about idiom and master it, they also get better in
reading comprehension. Because idioms almost appear in every English text, so students must be
aware and familiar with idiom to help them in comprehending the [Link] figure describe the frame
of thinking in this research :
Reading Comprehension
Idiomatic expression (X)
Achievement (Y)
1. Main idea
2. Expression/idiom/phrases in
context
3. Inferences (implied detail)
1. Metalinguistics skills 4. Grammatical features
2. Literal translation strategy 5. Vocabulary
3. Guessing thorugh the context 6. Detail (scanning for a
specifically stated detail)
7. Excluding fact not written
(unstated details)
Figure 2.1
Frame of Thinking Reading
C. Hypothesis
Based on the rational above, the researcher formulated the hypothesis as follows:
Ha : There is correlation between students’ idiomatic mastery and their achievement in reading
comprehension
HO : There is no correlation between students’ idiomatic mastery and their achievement in
reading comprehension
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
B. Research Design
The research design in this study was a descriptive quantitative which used correlational design.
According to Cresweel correlation is a statistical test to determine the tendency or pattern for two or
more variables or two set of data to vary constantly. In the case of two variables, it means that two
variables share common variance, or they co-vary together.0
It was employed to find out and measure the relationship between two variables covering an
independent variable idiomatic expression and their reading comprehension of the tenth grade at
SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan. The researcher used the test to collecting the data. In doing the research,
the researcher following some procedures as follows:
1. Asked permission to the Headmaster and English teacher at SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan
2. Determined the sample of research
3. Came to the class to explain the purpose of research to the students
4. Came to the class to give idiomatic expression and reading comprehension to the students
5. Took the data of research
6. Analyzed the data of research by using SPSS version 25
7. Concluded the result
2. Sample
Sample is taken from the population. Sample is portion of population. the sample of this
research is taken to facilitate the accommodation of the research. sample taking must be careful
because samples are used to generalize the population. 0 A correlation study should be taken for
at least 64 participants0; the smaller sample than 64 may give inaccurate the degree relationship
0
John. W. Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative
Research, (Boston: Pearson Education Inc., 2012), 4nd ed., p. 338
0
Sugiyono, Metode Penelitian Kuantitatif (1st ed) (Bandung : Alfabeta, 2018), p. 130.
0
Ary, Donald. Jacobs, Lucy Cheser dan Asghar Razavieh. Introduction to Research in Education, 8th Edition,
(Canada: Nelson Education ltd, 2010), p26
0
4 Fraenkel, Jack. R., and Norman E. Wallen. How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education 8th Edition,
(Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2012), p.121
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3. Sampling technique
In getting the sample of population in this research used cluster random sampling. Fraenkel
and Wallen stated that the selection of groups, cluster of subjects rather than individuals is
known as cluster random sampling.4
D. Definition Operasional Variable
Based on the explanation above, the operational definitions of variable can be identified as
follows:
1. Idiomatic Expression Mastery(X)
Idiom (also called idiomatic expression) is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative
meaning conventionally understood by native speakers. This meaning is different from the literal
meaning of the idiom's individual elements. In other words, idioms do not mean exactly as the
words literal meaning. 0 It means that an idiom is a phrase or sentence whose meaning is not
clear from the meaning of individual words and which must be learn as a whole unit of
languages.
2. Reading Comprehension (Y)
Reading comprehension is intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through
interactions between text and reader.0It means that reading comprehension is a process in which
the reader constructs meaning using material, information in the text and the reader's knowledge.
1 Main idea /Topic Students can find the main idea of the 10, 16
Sentence passage
2 Expression/Idiom/ Studens can find idiom/phrases in 11, 36, 42
Phrases in context context
3 Inference Students can find what is inferred in the 41, 43
passage
4 Grammatical features Students can match between the 13, 19, 39, 44
pronoun and what or who it stands for
5 Detail (scanning for a Students can scan for a specially stated 12, 17, 38
specially stated detail ) detail
6 Excluding facts not Students can scan for unstated detail 20, 40
0
Torchia, Christopher & Djuhari, Lely, Indonesian Idioms and Expressions, (Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2007), p.12
0
Paula Clarke and Dean Chesher, Developing reading comprehension, (New York: The Guilford Press, 2014), p.5
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written (unstated
details)
7 Supporting idea Students can find the supporting idea to 18, 37
support the main idea
8 Vocabulary in context Students can guess the meaning of 14, 15
difficult vocabularied from context
provided.
Total 20
Table 3.2
Blue Print of Idiomatic Expression After Validity
No Aspect Indicator Item Number
Table 3.3
Classificatiton of the student’s Mastering Idiomatic Expression0
Score Classification
85-100 Very Good
75-84 Very Good
65-74 Fair
<65 Poor
2. Reading Comprehension
The test was used to know the students reading comprehension in recount text
achievement by using multiple choice questions by the options A, B, C, and D. the researcher
prepared the items of reading comprehension test with the totals 20 items. The scoring of
reading comprehension test was counted by using Arikunto’s formulas to get the score for the
students reading comprehension test. The ideal highest is 100. 0
r
S= x 100
n
Note:
S = The Score of the Test
r = The total of the right Answer
n= The total item
Table 3.4
Classificatiton of the student’s Reading Comprehension
Score Classification
85-100 Very Good
0
Carol & Hall, Models and Method of Teaching, (Australia: Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty Ltd, 1985), p.124
0
[Link],P.271
0
Hughes Arthur, Testing For Language Teacher, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 26
0
John W. Best and James V. Khan, Research in Education, (New Delhi: Prentice Hall, 1995), p. 219
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Beist and Khan says that Construct validity is the i deigreiei to which scoreis on a teist
construct validity is focuseid on thei aspeicts of thei teist which can meiasurei thei ability
eispeicially for linguistic intelligence and writing achievement
c. Inteirnal Validity
Inteirnal validity reifeirs to thei reilationship beitweiein scoreis obtaineid using thei
instrumeint and scoreis obtaineid using onei or morei otheir instrumeints or meiasurei ( oftein
calleid a criteirion).0 It meians that inteirnal validity was baseid on thei reisult of the test.
2. Reliability Test
Thei meianing of reiliability diffeirs arei in quantitativei and qualitativei reiseiarch.0
Reiliability in quantitativei reiseiarch was eisseintially a synonym for deipeindability, consisteincy and
reiliability oveir timei, oveir instrumeints and oveir groups of reispondeints. For obseirvational data,
reiliability was addreisseid in thei training seission for reiseiarcheirs wheirei theiy work on mateirial to
einsurei parity in how theiy einteir thei [Link] colleicting thei data, thei reiseiarcheir usedi rank
speiarman to calculatei thei studeints’ reiliability scoreiof stduents linguistic intelligence and their
writing achievement. The relaibility analyzed was used software SPSS Version 25. The criteria of
Reliability as follows :
Tablei 3.5
Criteiria of Reiliability0
No Criteiria of Reiliability Scorei
1 Veiry High Reiliability 0.800-1.000
2 High Reiliability 0.600-0.800
3 Meidium Reiliability 0.400-0.600
4 Low Reiliability 0.200-0.400
5 Veiry Low Reiliability 0.000-0.200
G. Data Analysis
1. Normality test
The normality test was used to measure whether the data of idiomatic expression and
reading comprehension are normally distributed or not. 0 In this research was used statistical
computation by using SPSS version 25. The tests of normality employed were Kolmogrov-
Smirnov. The hypotheses for the normally test formulated as follows:
H₀ = The data are normally distributed
Ha = The data are not normally distributed
The criteria are as follows:
H₀ is accepted if sig. α = 0.05
Ha is accepted if sig. < α = 0.05
2. Linearity
Linierity test used to test whether all linier regression models between a dependent variable and
an independent variable are related to a straigt line to the right bottom right. If the linier sig value
is <0.05 a linier relationship is found. The data were analyzed by using Software SPSS version
0
Jack R. Fraenkel and Norman E. Wallen, Op. Cit,p.148
0
L. Cohen, [Link], p. 146
0
Arikunto, Suharsimi, Prosedur Penelitian Suatu Pendekatan Praktik, (Jakarta: Rineka Cipta, 2010), p.102
0
Nana Sudjana, Metode Statistika, (Bandung: Tarsito, 2005), p. 466
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3. Hypothetical Test
The hypothesis was formulated in this study follows:
Ha : There is correlation between students‟ idiom mastery and their achievement in reading
comprehension
HO : There is no correlation between students‟ idiom mastery and their achievement in reading
comprehension
While the criteria acceptance or rejection of normality tests:
Ho: is accepted if sig ≥ α = 0.05
Ha : is accepted if sig < α = 0.05
The coefficient is between -1 up to +1. The negative coefficient shows contrary
correlation, while the positive coefficient shows there is a correlation. Below was the
interpretation of coefficient correlation:
a. Between 0.800 to 1.00 : very high correlation.
b. Between 0.600 to 0.800 : high correlation
c. Between 0.400 to 0.600 : medium correlation
d. Between 0.200 to 0.400 : low correlation
e. Between 0.00 to 0.200 : very low correlation.0
0
A.B. Setiyadi, Penelitian dalam pengajaran Bahasa asing, (Bandar Lampung: FKIP Unila, 2006), p.67.
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CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
A. Research Finding
The researcher asked permission to the headmaster and the teacher did the research at tenth
grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan. Furthermore, the researcher had chosen randomly the class
which the researcher did for the research. After getting the class, the English teacher brought the
researcher to the class and introduced the researcher to the students.
This research was conducted in two classes which consists of 64 students. The researcher
gave idiomatic expression and reading comprehension with 20 items. Furthermore, the
researcher told to the students if the researcher did the test in their class about students’
idiomatic expression and students’ reading comprehension. Next, the researcher asked to the
students about the definition of students’ idiomatic expression and students’ reading
comprehension. Almost all of the students know what is students’ idiomatic expression and
students’ reading comprehension, but they convey their understanding about students’ idiomatic
expression and students’ reading comprehension by their own knowledge. In the end, the
researcher got the score and calculated it to know the correlation between students’ students’
idiomatic expression and the students’ reading comprehension.
Based on statistical computation by using SPSS above, it can be seen that the mean of
idiomatic expression was 60.16, median was 60.00, mode was 55 and sum was 3850. The
researcher describes the result of idiomatic expression score in form of figure as follows:
9
8
7
6
frequency
5
4
3
2
1
0
30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
Scores
Figure 1
Students’ Score of Idiomatic expression
Based on the figure above, it can be seen that there were 4 students who got score 30, 4
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students who got score 35, 4 students who got score 40, 4 students who got score 45, 6 students
who got score 50, 8 students who got score 55, 6 students who got score 60, 6 students who got
65, 4 students who got score 70, 4 students who got score 75, 6 students who got score 80, 4
students who got score 85 and 4 students who got score 90. Meanwhile, the second test was
students’ reading comprehension (see appendix 7). The researcher described the result of writing
test in the table and figure as follows:
N Valid 64
Missing 0
Mean 72.50
Median 72.50
Mode 60
Sum 4640
Based on statistical computation by using SPSS above, it can be seen that the mean for
students’ reading comprehension test was 72.50, median 72.50, mode as 60 and sum was 4640.
The researcher describes the result of reading comprehension in form of figure as follows:
12
10
8
frequency
0
50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95
Scores
Figure 2
Students’ Score of Reading Comprehension
Based on figure above, it can be seen that there were 4 students who got score 50, 6 students
who got score 55, 10 students who got score 60, 8 students who got score 65, 4 students who got
score 70, 8 students who got score 75, 6 students who got score 80, 4 students who got score 85,
8 students who got score 90 and 6 student who got score 95.
2. Normality Test
In this research, the researcher used SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) to count
the data of research. Normality test aimed to know whether or not the data have normal
distribution. The researcher analyzed the data from the score of idiomatic expression and reading
comprehension.
Tabel 4.1
Normality Test Data
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Df Sig
Normality Test .090 64 0.200
a. Test distribution normal
b. Calculated from data
c. Lilliefors significance correction (see appendix 8)
Based on the output data from SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) by using One
Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, it showed that the data have normal distribution because sig
> α = 0.05 (0.200 > 0.05).
3. Linearity Test
Linearity test aimed to know if there was any relation between X (Idiomatic Expression) and
Y (Reading comprehension) variable. In the research, the researcher used the statistical
computation by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science). The test of linearity and the
criteria as follows:
Table 4.2
The Linearity Data
Anova Table
Idiomatic Expression * Reading df Mean square F Sig
Comprehension 1 12059.146 3280.088 .142
Based on the data above, it can be seen that the result of linearity was 0.142 it was higher
than significance 0.05. Therefore, the variables have linear relationship. (see appendix 9).
Table 4.3
SPSS IBM Correlation between Idiomatic Expression
and Students’ Reading comprehension
Idiomatic Expression Reading
(x) Comprehension (y)
Students’ Pearson correlation 1 .986
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From the calculation about the correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and
the students' reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan obtained the
result that rxy 0.986, significant (2-tailed) 0.000 and the number of subjects was 64 (see
appendix 10).
However, the statistical hypothesis on this research:
Ha : sig.2 tailed < 0.05 (there was a correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and the
students' reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan)
Ho : sig. 2 tailed > 0.05 (there was no correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and the
students' reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan)
The result of the computation showed that the coefficient of correlation between students’
idiomatic expression (X) and students’ reading comprehension (Y) was 0.986. Then the
significant was 0.000 lower than 0.05 (sig. 2 tailed 0.000 < 0.05). Therefore, H a was accepted. It
can be concluded that there was correlation between students’ idiomatic expression and the
students' reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan. The
interpretation about the rate of the correlation coefficient was formed by certain rule, were as
follows:
Table 4.5
The Index of Correlation
N Coefficient Interval Level of Correlation
o
1 0.800-1.000 High Correlation
2 0.600-0.800 Sufficient Correlation
3 0.400-0.600 High correlation
4 0.200-0.400 Low Correlation
5 0.000-0.200 Very Low Correlation
Based on the computation, it was known that the value of rxy= 0.986. It was
categorized by using coefficient correlation criteria above. It was obtained that 0.986 and
classified interval 0.800 – 1.000 on the high correlation.
B. Discussion
Idioms refer to expressions or phrases which are peculiar to a given language and which
carry either a literal meaning or a non-literal meaning depending on the intent of the writer. In
other words, idioms as the term are used here, are ambiguous, and to be understood must either
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be known as a unit or deduced from the context. That is, the intended meaning cannot be arrived
at by literal analysis. 'He kicked the bucket' can literally mean just that, but it usually conveys its
idiomatic meaning: 'he died'.
Students tend to take longer to finish the test of idiomatic expression questions because they
interpret one by one the word at a time so that in the end they are confused about the meaning of
these words, even though students should not interpret one by one the word at a time but must
understand the context of the text they are reading. It is supported by Cain et al that if students
understand the context of a story, they will be able to interpret the idioms contained in the text. 0
it is clear that idiomatic expression has relation to reading comprehension.
There are several texts in the idiomatic expression questions and the researcher provided
questions regarding idiomatic expressions such as hit the sack, a bird in the hand is better than
two in the bush, like fish out of water, make a long story short, and so on. It can be seen that the
students took longer to finish on idiomatic expression questions than reading comprehension.
The researcher monitored and asked the students a little why they looked confused. Students
answered that they had never worked on specific idiom questions like this because usually there
were only one or two questions in English regarding idiomatic expressions, so they were not
used to working on this many questions. That was why they need more time than usual.
This research was about finding the answer whether there was correlation between the
students’ idiomatic expression and students’ reading comprehension. The researcher took the
data of research in two classes which consisted of 64 students. First, the researcher gave
research permission to the school, then conducted research in a not so long period of time,
approximately one week. The researcher gave 20 questions about idiomatic expressions and 20
questions about reading comprehension as well.
After carrying out both idiomatic expression and reading comprehension tests, the
researcher then analyzed the scores obtained by the students. It can be seen that scores on
idiomatic expressions tend to be lower than reading comprehension scores. It can be seen that
the highest score obtained by students on the idiomatic expression test was 90. Although it was
not too different from the reading comprehension score, which was 95, in order to understand
idiomatic expressions students looked very confused and often asked different questions to the
researcher than when they were working on reading comprehension questions.
This research was completed with two types of completion. The first test was about reading
comprehension. The first test was given directly to students at school and the second was
through the Google form. This was because the school does not allow researcher to linger on
research at school due to limitation of time. The school does not want students to be disturbed
by researcher. When the students did idiomatic test, the researcher could no longer control the
situation since she had no idea whether they cheated to look for the answer on internet or not.
The researcher could not control the students while the test online, but when viewed from
the range between the scores between students who took the test using the Google form, they got
almost similar score to students who took the test directly in class. It can be concluded from
these factors that if students are able to take the idiomatic expression test, it will automatically
be easy for them to take the reading comprehension test.
These factors imply that the students’ activity and frequency in students’ idiomatic
expression gave a useful contribution to enlarge their students’ reading comprehension. 0 It
means that if the student understands idiomatic expression, it could increase their reading
comprehension skill to be better. From the findings and the discussion above, the researcher
concluded that there was high correlation between students’ idiomatic expression and their
0
Cain, Kate, Jane Oakhill, and Kate Lemmon. "The relation between children’s reading comprehension level and their
comprehension of idioms." Journal of experimental child psychology 90.1 (2005): 65-87.
0
Levorato, M. Chiara, Maja Roch, and Barbara Nesi. "A longitudinal study of idiom and text comprehension." Journal
of child language 34.3 (2007): 473-494.
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students’ reading comprehension at the second semester at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way
Pengubuan Lampung. Therefore, the null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative
hypothesis (Ha) could be accepted.
In other words, the more students deepen their knowledge of idiomatic expressions the
easier it will be for them to learn reading comprehension questions because idiomatic expression
questions are considered difficult for students, so if the most difficult questions can be solved it
will be easy for students to work on normal level questions. Even though idioms are not often
found in a text, they can interfere with understanding if students do not understand their
meaning. It is in line with a theory stated by Abbas and Nahid in previous chapter that the
meaning of an idiomatic expression is not the sum of the individual words. 0 Therefore, to
understand the meaning of idioms, the reader cannot translate or separate the words into a single
part of semantic unit because the meaning of the idiom can be interpreted by interrelate of its
words.
Based on the results of the research which showed that students took longer to complete the
idiom test than reading comprehension, the students should be taught to recognize idioms. It is
the same as theory stated by Titone et al that in mastering idiomatic, the students not only study
about the meaning of words, but they also study the interpret the specific meaning of each
idiom.0 In other words, mastering idiomatic expression means complete knowledge or great skill
of a list of words for a particular language including the meaning, phrasal and compound
idioms.
Is it possible to train students to discern idioms by the use of 'context clues', or through an
understanding of metaphorical language. Students can also learn idiomatic expressions from
various sources. The best source for learning idiomatic expression is by watching foreign talk
shows such as Ellen Talk Show and western films such as Harry Potter, Spiderman, Batman etc
where all actors and actress are native speakers. Therefore, the students will get used to hearing
and remembering the idioms they have watched.
In the end, the researcher concluded that one of the factors affecting students' reading
comprehension achievement is their ability to express themselves idiomatically. If idiom
comprehension is related to general abilities in processing linguistic information, then students
who are proficient in text comprehension should also be more adept at comprehensive and
idiomatic expression than students who are less proficient. In other words, a student’s reading
aptitude and understanding abilities should be closely associated. It means the idiom mastery
must be directly proportional to the aim of reading comprehension. It can be said that students
who master idioms well get better in reading comprehension.
0
Abbas Ali Zarei and Nahid Rahimi, Idioms: Etymology, Contextual Pragmatic Clues, and Lexical Knowledge in
Focus, (Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012), p.21
0
Titone, Debra A., and Cynthia M. Connine. "Comprehension of idiomatic expressions: effects of predictability and
literality." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 20.5 (2020): 1126.
CHAPTER V
A. Conclusion
Based on the result of the research, the researcher provides the conclusion as follows:
There was high correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and the students’ reading
comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan in academic year 2023/2024. The
reason for high correlation because the result of computation by using SPSS obtained 0.986 and it was
on high criteria.
B. Recommendation
Based on the conclusion above, it is recommended that in students’ idiomatic expression and in
students’ reading comprehension as follows:
1. For the students
1) Students are advised to watch and understand a lot about idiomatic expressions that can be
found in western films for example from film Harry Potter, Batman, and Spiderman and from
talk show such as Ellen Talk Show because they use everyday conversations from native
speakers. So that when there is a test of idiomatic expressions students will not work on it for
too long.
2) Students are advised to practice looking for idioms contained in a text such as in recount text
because this text describes about daily accident, so that it frequently contains of some idioms. In
a text there will only be one to two idioms so it will not be difficult for students to practice
understanding them.
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APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1
The Result of Interview with the English Teacher in the Preliminary Research
NO Questions Answer Conclusion
Bagaimana respon Sejauh ini respon siswa itu cukup Kurang tertarik
siswa terhadap baik ya, mereka tertarik untuk belajar
pelajaran bahasa bahasa inggris. Namun kadang ada
inggris? beberapa dari mereka yang
1 memeberikan respon kurang baik
juga. Mungkin karena tidak tertarik
atau memang sulit materinya atau
apa. Sejauh ini respon mereka seperti
itu.
Bagaimana Karena penguasaan kosa kata nya Kemampuan siswa
kemampuan siswa sedikit adi kemampuan reading dalam Reading
2 dalam Reading comprehension siswa rendah , sulit Comprehension
Comprehension ? untuk mereka mengerti isi text Rendah
tersebut
Apa kesulitan Siswa sulit menemukan main idea Kesulitan yang
siswa dalam nya, supporting detail nya juga . dihadapi siswa yaitu
belajar Reading mungkin karena minim penguasaan sulit memahami text
Comprehension vocabulary ya . dan juga mereka bacaan Reading.
3 kepada Anak-anak cukup bingung ketika ada tugas yang
kelas 12 SMA ? lain juga jadi mereka mungkin susah
menerma materi Reading yang saya
berikan . jadi, respon mereka ya
begini hanya sedikit .
Apakah mereka Dikarenakan murid disini belum Siswa belum
menemukan sepenuhnya memahami apa itu memahami konsep
idiomatic idiomatic dan kebanyakan dari idiomatic expression
4 expression di mereka bingung sehingga belum bisa
dalam teks dikatakan paham idiomatic
reading ? expression apalagi jika disuruh
membedakan itu sulit sekali.
Apa yang menjadi Menurut saya kebanyakan dari Kesulitan dalam
kesulitan siswa mereka sulit membedakan dan membedakan dan
dalam memahami mengartikan setiap idiomatic yang mengartikan
5 idiomatic ada di reading text, karena dari idiomatic expression.
expression ? mereka hanya mengartikan kata itu
word to word jadi makna nya kan
tidak sesuai,.
APPENDIX 2
The Result of Pre experimental for Questionnaire students
Appendix 3
The Student’s Name and Score of Tenth Grade
X.A
No Name Score
1 A1 24
2 A2 27
3 A3 33
4 A4 80
5 A5 68
6 A6 21
7 A7 10
8 A8 79
9 A9 33
10 A10 56
11 A11 86
12 A12 31
13 A13 49
14 A14 59
15 A15 42
16 A16 57
17 A17 16
18 A18 25
19 A19 51
20 A20 69
21 A21 73
22 A22 35
23 A23 24
24 A24 51
25 A25 47
26 A26 63
27 A27 84
28 A28 51
29 A29 46
30 A30 84
31 A31 31
32 A32 58
33 A33 66
34 A34 63
35 A35 87
X.B
No Name Score
1 B1 21
2 B2 26
3 B3 15
4 B4 84
5 B5 56
6 B6 38
7 B7 16
8 B8 53
9 B9 28
10 B10 35
11 B11 45
12 B12 48
13 B13 30
14 B14 48
15 B15 36
16 B16 66
17 B17 47
18 B18 13
19 B19 52
20 B20 72
21 B21 19
22 B22 36
23 B23 48
24 B24 60
25 B25 46
26 B26 31
27 B27 53
28 B28 28
29 B29 37
30 B30 60
31 B31 57
32 B32 35
33 B33 36
34 B34 43
35 B35 32
X.C
No Name Score
1 C1 84
2 C2 38
3 C3 53
4 C4 46
5 C5 62
6 C6 60
7 C7 66
8 C8 -
9 C9 87
10 C10 64
11 C11 47
12 C12 48
13 C13 40
14 C14 43
15 C15 41
16 C16 40
17 C17 31
18 C18 60
19 C19 31
20 C20 52
21 C21 41
22 C22 59
23 C23 41
24 C24 76
25 C25 62
26 C26 -
27 C27 50
28 C28 58
29 C29 52
30 C30 29
31 C31 42
32 C32 82
33 C33 10
X.D
No Name Score
1 D1 67
2 D2 48
3 D3 43
4 D4 32
5 D5 46
6 D6 28
7 D7 40
8 D8 43
9 D9 36
10 D10 46
11 D11 30
12 D12 56
13 D13 15
14 D14 43
15 D15 23
16 D16 47
17 D17 35
18 D18 56
19 D19 -
20 D20 -
21 D21 18
22 D22 61
23 D23 13
24 D24 53
25 D25 36
26 D26 28
27 D27 55
28 D28 35
29 D29 17
30 D30 22
31 D31 44
32 D32 39
33 D33 62
34 D34 67
35 D35 44
APPENDIX 4 SILABUS
SILABUS
SILABUS SMA/MA
Alokas
Kompetensi Materi Sumber
Pembelajaran Penilaian i
Dasar Pokok Belajar
Waktu
1.1. Mensyuk Mengamati
Teks lisan Kriteria
uri Siswa 2 x2
Alokas
Kompetensi Materi Sumber
Pembelajaran Penilaian i
Dasar Pokok Belajar
Waktu
kesempat mendengarkan/me JP
dan tulis penilaian: Audio
an dapat mbaca pemaparan
sederhana, CD/
mempelaj jati diri dengan Pencapaian
untuk VCD/D
ari bahasa memperhatikan fungsi sosial
memapark VD
Inggris fungsi sosial, Kelengkapan
an,
sebagai struktur teks, unsur SUAR
menanyak dan
bahasa kebahasaan, A
an, dan keruntutan
pengantar maupun format GURU
merespon struktur teks
Komunik penyampaian/penu memaparkan Koran/
pemapara
asi lisannya. dan majala
n jati diri
internasio menanyakan h
Siswa mencoba
nal yang Fungsi
menirukan jati diri berbah
diwujudk sosial asa
pengucapannya Ketepatan
an dalam Menjalin Inggris
dan menuliskan unsur
semangat hubungan pemaparan jati diri kebahasaan: www.d
belajar dengan yang digunakan. tata bahasa, ailyeng
2.2. Menunjuk guru,
Mempertanyakan kosa kata, [Link]
kan teman dan
ucapan, m
perilaku orang lain Dengan bimbingan
tekanan kata,
jujur, dan arahan guru, http://
Ungkapan intonasi,
disiplin, siswa americ
ejaan, dan
percaya My name is... mempertanyakan
tulisan
anengli
diri, dan I’m ... I antara lain, [Link]
tangan
bertanggu live in ... I perbedaan antara .gov/
ng jawab have … I berbagai Kesesuaian files/
dalam like …. pemaparan jati diri format ae/
melaksana dan dalam bahasa penulisan/ resourc
kan semacamn Inggris, penyampaian e_files
Komunika ya perbedaannya Unjuk kerja http://
si Unsur dengan yang ada
learnen
transaksio kebahasaan dalam bahasa Melakukan
[Link]
nal Indonesia. monolog
: itishco
dengan yang
Siswa [Link]
guru dan (1) Kata menyebutka
mempertanyakan g/en/
teman. terkait n jati diri
denga pengucapan dan isi didepan
3.1. Menganali n teks yang kelas
sis fungsi hubun memaparkan jati Ketepatan
sosial, gan diri menggunaka
struktur kekel Mengeksplorasi n struktur
teks, dan uarga dan unsur
unsur Siswa mencari
an dan kebahasaan
kebahasaa pemaparan jati diri
keker dalam
n dari teks dari berbagai
abatan menyebutka
pemapara sumber.
, n jati diri
n jati diri, profes Siswa berlatih
sesuai Pengamatan
i memaparkan jati
dengan (observations):
pekerj diri dengan teman
konteks aan, melalui simulasi. Bukan penilaian
pengguna hobi. formal seperti
annya. Siswa berlatih
(2) Kata tes, tetapi untuk
memaparkan jati
Alokas
Kompetensi Materi Sumber
Pembelajaran Penilaian i
Dasar Pokok Belajar
Waktu
4.1. Menyusun
kerja diri melalui tulisan tujuan memberi
teks lisan
dalam balikan.
dan tulis
simplMengasosiasi Sasaran
sederhana,
e Siswa penilaian:
untuk
presen menganalisis
memapark Berperilaku
t ungkapan
an, jujur,
tense: memaparkan jati
menanyak disiplin,
be, diri dengan
an, dan percaya
have mengelompokanny
merespon diri, dan
dalam a berdasarkan
pemapara bertanggun
simpl penggunaan.
n jati diri, g jawab
e
dengan dalam
presen Secara
memperha berkelompok melaksanak
t tense
tikan siswa an
(3) Kata
fungsi mendiskusikan Komunikasi
tanya
sosial, ungkapan Kesungguha
What?
struktur memaparkan jati n siswa
Who?
teks, dan diri yang mereka dalam
Which
unsur temukan dari proses
?
kebahasaa sumber lain dan pembelajara
(4) Ucapa
n, secara membandingkanny n dalam
n,
benar dan a dengan yang setiap
tekana
sesuai digunakan guru tahapan
n
dengan
kata, Siswa memperoleh Portofolio
konteks.
intona balikan (feedback)
si, dari guru dan Kumpulan
ejaan, teman tentang karya siswa
tulisa fungsi sosial dan yang
n unsur kebahasaan mencermin
tanga yang sampaikan kan hasil
n dalam kerja atau
yang kelompok. capaian
rapi belajar
(5) Rujuk Mengkomunikasika berupa
an n rekaman
kata Siswa penggunaan
mendemonstrasika ungkapan
Topik dan skrip
n penggunaan
pemaparan jati diri percakapan
Keteladan secara lisan dan Kumpulan
an tentang tertulis di kelas hasil tes dan
perilaku dengan latihan.
terbuka, memperhatikan
mengharg fungsi sosial, Catatan
ai ungkapan, dan atau
perbedaan, unsur kebahasaan rekaman
perdamaia yang benar dan penilaian
n. sesuai dengan diri dan
konteks penilaian
sejawat,
Alokas
Kompetensi Materi Sumber
Pembelajaran Penilaian i
Dasar Pokok Belajar
Waktu
Siswa menuliskan berupa
permasalahan komentar
dalam atau cara
menggunakan penilaian
bahasa Inggris lainnya.
untuk memaparkan
Penilaian Diri
jati diri dalam
dan Penilaian
jurnal belajar
Sejawat
(learning journal).
Bentuk: diary,
jurnal, format
khusus,
komentar, atau
bentuk
penilaian lain
1.1 Mensyuk Teks lisan Mengamati KRITERIA Audio
1 x2
uri dan tulis PENILAIAN: CD/
Siswa JP
kesempat untuk
mendengarkan/men Pencapaian SUAR
an dapat memuji
onton interaksi fungsi sosial A
mempelaj bersayap
memuji bersayap. Kelengkapan GURU
ari (extended)
dan
bahasa serta Siswa mengikuti Koran/
keruntutan
Inggris responnya interaksi memuji majala
struktur teks
sebagai bersayap. h ber
Fungsi memuji
bahasa Siswa menirukan www.d
sosial bersayap
pengantar model interaksi Ketepatan ailyeng
Komunik Menjaga memuji bersayap unsur [Link]
asi hubungan
kebahasaan: m
internasio interperso Dengan bimbingan
tata bahasa,
nal yang nal dan arahan guru, http://
siswa kosa kata,
diwujudk dengan americ
mengidentifikasi ucapan,
an dalam guru, anengli
ciri-ciri interaksi tekanan kata,
semangat teman dan [Link]
memuji bersayap intonasi,
belajar. orang lain. .gov/
(fungsi sosial, ejaan, dan
files/
2.1. Menunjuk Ungkapan struktur teks, dan tulisan
ae/
kan “Excellent! You unsur kebahasaan). tangan
resourc
perilaku really did it Kesesuaian
e_files
santun dan well, Tina.” Mempertanyakan format
peduli (questioning) penulisan/ http://
“That’s
dalam penyampaian learnen
nice, Anisa. Dengan bimbingan
melaksana I really like [Link]
dan arahan guru, siswa CARA
kan itishco
it.” “It was mempertanyakan PENILAIAN:
Komunika great. I like [Link]
si antara lain perbedaan Unjuk kerja g/en/
it, thank
interperso you,” antara berbagai
Bermain
nal ungkapan memuji peran (role
dengan Unsur bersayap dalam play) dalam
guru dan kebahasaan
bahasa Inggris, bentuk
teman. :
perbedaan ungkapan interaksi
3.2. Menganali Ucapan, yang berisi
Alokas
Kompetensi Materi Sumber
Pembelajaran Penilaian i
Dasar Pokok Belajar
Waktu
sis fungsi tekanan dengan yang ada pernyataan
sosial, kata, dalam bahasa pujian dan
struktur intonasi Indonesia, responnya .
teks, dan
kemungkinan Ketepatan
unsur
menggunakan dan
kebahasaa
ungkapan lain, dsb. kesesuaian
n pada
menggunaka
ungkapan Mengeksplorasi n struktur
memuji
Siswa memuji bersayap dan unsur
bersayap
dengan bahasa Inggris kebahasaan
serta
dalam konteks dalam
responnya
simulasi, role-play, menyampaik
, sesuai
dan kegiatan lain yang an pujian
dengan
terstruktur. serta
konteks
responnya
pengguna Mengasosiasi
annya. Pengamatan
Siswa (observations):
4.2. Menyusun membandingkan
teks lisan ungkapan memujiBukan penilaian
dan tulis bersayap yang formal seperti
untuk telah dipelajari tes, tetapi untuk
mengucap dengan yang ada tujuan memberi
kan dan di berbagai sumber balikan.
merespon lain. Sasaran
pujian penilaian:
bersayap, Siswa
membandingkan Upaya
dengan menggunak
memperha antara ungkapan
dalam bahasa an bahasa
tikan Inggris
fungsi Inggris dan dalam
bahasa siswa. untuk
sosial, menyatakan
struktur Mengkomunikasikan pujian dan
teks, dan responnya
unsur Siswa memuji
dengan bahasa ketika
kebahasaa muncul
n yang Inggris, di dalam
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The bread was taken out of the oven by me. Jean ate the rest of his food from his
bowl with a large slice of thick bread. Constable Fitzgerald was standing nearby. ‘I’ll just go
grab my jacket!” Jean said. I chased after Jean, shouting at him for letting him in when he
shouldn’t have. Rose’s screams could be heard. I dashed back to see what had happened.
Fitzgerald was bullying her, she explained. I charged into the kitchen, grabbed the shovel, and
smacked him in the face. Jean dashed back into the room and tackled him to the ground.
Cathy was right there when the door swung open. Cathy entered the room and took
Fitzgerald’s rifle. Fitzgerald was shot in the wrist by the revolver. “Touch our sister again,
and there will be a bullet in your head,” both boys said as they stood there. My sons made me
proud when they stood up for their sister. (Source: [Link]
[Link]/2021/07/[Link]).
45. What is the main idea of this text?
A. Rose
B. Mr. Jean Clarkson
C. Hectic day
D. Cowboy’s pride
46. “Can’t a guy eat in peace?”
The underlined sentences mean...
A. Shouldn’t be bothered
B. Eating the peace
C. Eating alone
D. Eating bread
47. “It’s all right, Mum,” in an attempt to quiet me down.
The underlined sentences mean...
A. Make me down
B. Make me noice
C. Make me silent
D. Make me smart
48. The bread was taken out of the oven by me.
The underlined sentences mean...
A. Picked up
B. Threw away
C. Tested
D. Baked
Instructions:
1. Answer these following questions!
2. Make use in your answers of the idiomatic expressions!
1. "We are going to put the next meeting back a bit" means:
a. We're going to have to cancel it.
b. We're not planning to have another meeting.
c. We're suspending all future meetings.
d. We're going to have to hold it at a later date.
2. "Something has come up" means:
a. Someone has brought up a point.
b. A price has gone up.
c. Costs have suddenly increased.
d. An unexpected problem has arisen.
3. "I must pick the children up from school" means:
a. I must put them to school.
b. I must take them from school.
c. I must drive them to school.
d. I must leave them at school.
4. What is the meaning of the following definition: A phrase to say when something that is
illegal has been found and is being stopped
a. Cross that bridge when I come to it
b. Fight tooth and nail
c. Jig is up.
d. Point of no return
5. What is the meaning of the following definition: To make a mistake?
a. Drag your feet
b. Variety is the spice of life
c. Wash your hands of it
d. Fall flat on my face.
6. We are having a pot-luck dinner at Tim's house tomorrow. Everybody is invited!
a. dinner where everybody brings something to eat
b. dinner where only soup is served
c. dinner where everybody chips in
d. dinner where people eat and play games at the same time
7. I am so mad at my boyfriend. We were supposed to have a date last night at the park but he
stood me up.
a. didn't come
b. angry with me
c. took me somewhere else.
d. he didn't know
8. She's been down in the dumps since they broke up.
a. Angry
b. Crazy
c. very sad or depressed.
d. disappointed
9. You must look after yourself. Just look at you! Only skin and bone.
a. Very big
b. Very thin
c. Very short
d. Very small.
10. Sinta is a bookworm. She reads many books.
a. A person who likes worm
b. A person collects books
c. A person who loves reading .
d. A person who likes to borrow books
11. How are you getting along in you study of Math?
a. Along side
b. Current result.
c. Place
d. Manner
12. Do you like talk over your personal problems with someone?
a. Sharing.
b. Buying
c. Acting
d. Kicking
13. Is it easy or difficult for you to pick out gifts for your friends?
a. Throw
b. Buy
c. Take.
d. Eat
14. Do you take your time when you are writing an examination or do you prefer to finish
quickly?
a. Hurry
b. Danger
c. Study
d. Enjoy.
15. Why must Doni lie down for several hours each afternoon?
a. Play
b. Rest.
c. Work
d. Walk
16. What is the definition of Look out for number one?
a. To have difficulty doing something, or to experience a difficult period
b. To help someone with something
c. To do something so that you will get all the benefit.
d. To be difficult to find, or to be very isolated and remote
17. What is the definition of Lick your wounds?
a. To swear a lot
b. To go away and recover from a bad experience or defeat.
c. A way to ask someone what they are thinking about
d. To start to do something before all the preparation has been finished
18. What is the definition of Have a blast?
a. To tell someone to be polite and to use good manners
b. Something that you find very easy to do
c. To say that it is someone else’s responsibility to make a decision or do something
d. To have a very good time.
19. What is the definition of Stand on ceremony?
a. To expect that everything is done in the proper and very formal way.
b. To finish something or to give it away so that it is no longer your responsibility
c. To say that having different experiences makes life fun and interesting
d. To do something slowly
20. What is the meaning of the following definition: To say that it is easy to claim you will do
something but what you really do is all that matters?
a. Actions speak louder than words.
b. The ball is in your court
c. Second nature
d. Watch your P’s and Q’s
21. What is the meaning of the following definition: To be able to afford many expensive things?
a. The cart before the horse
b. Have deep pockets.
c. A penny for your thoughts
d. Turn the air blue
22. What is the meaning of the following definition: To mean something full and with all your
ability?
a. Off the beaten track
b. Give a hand
c. From the bottom of my heart.
d. Tough time of it
23. Take everything you read on the Internet with a _______ and you'll be okay.
a. Piece of Cake
b. Pinch of salt.
c. Burn in the oven
d. Burn in hell
24. I can never tell what Maria’s thinking. She is _____
a. The apple of my eye
b. In a nutshell
c. A hard nut to crack.
d. A little piece of heaven
25. She likes to ____ in her classes with games and interesting activities.
a. Spice things up.
b. Soup things up
c. Butter things up
d. Oil things up
26. I always know he wants something. He tries to ____ before asking.
a. Butter me up.
b. Spill the beans
c. Bring me the bacon
d. Bring me the horizon
27. Every school has some ____, so be careful who you make friends with.
a. Hot cakes
b. Bad eggs.
c. Peach fuzz
d. Bad blood
28. Healthy children are ____. They don’t just sit around all day.
a. Souped up
b. Cool as cucumbers
c. Full of shits
d. Full of beans.
29. I don’t like going to the opera. It just isn’t my _____
a. Cup of tea.
b. Piece of cake
c. Gravy train
d. Heavy rain
30. Students who get scholarship to the top universities are the _____
a. Hot potatoes
b. Bread and butter
c. Cream and the crop.
d. Snap shot
Direction :
Read the text below and answer the following question by crossing the correct answer A,B,C or D !
The following text is for question number 1 to 5
Last weekend, I visited my pen pal’s house. His name is Anto. There were many activities i
did there. In the morning. Anto and I had breakfast. We had traditional food. I on cloud nine
After breakfast, he took me to the garden behind his house. The garden was very big and
beautiful. There is a big bird cage in the garden. There were many kinds of birds n that cage. I spent a
long time feeding the birds. I also took pictures with those beautiful birds.
After visiting the bird cage. Anto and I went to the flower garden not far from his house . We
took a rest and had lunch under a big tree and watch butterflies flying above colorful flowers. In the
afternoon. We swam in the pool in the backyard. It was so fun and a bird in the hand is better than two
in the bush when i enjoyed my time with Anto.
(sources : [Link]
1. What the last paragraph about?
A. Anto had butterflies as his pet
B. The writer’s friend is a good swimmer
C. There are a lot of flowers in anto’s house
D. The writer had a good time with his friend
2. The text above tells us about ..
A. A holiday at a friend place
B. A picture of bird
C. A big bird cage
D. A big garden
3. From the text, we know that the writer ..
A. Under a tree
B. Inside big bird cage
C. In the flower garden
D. In the swimming pool
4. From the text, we know that the writer ..
A. Had gone and visited many palaces during his holiday
B. Lived in the same village with his pen pal’s anto
C. Liked butterflies and swimming very much
D. Spent his holiday at friend’s house
5. We had traditional food. I on cloud nine. After breakfast, he took me to the garden behind his
house. The underlined word means.
A. Very sad
B. Very happy
C. Very embarrassed
D. Very bad
6. It was so fun and a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush when i enjoyed my time
with anto. The underlined word means.
A. Time never repeats
B. Bird stay in the hands
C. Quick
D. Never forget
Instructions:
1. Answer these following questions!
2. Make use in your answers of the idiomatic expressions!
1. "We are going to put the next meeting back a bit" means:
a. We're going to have to cancel it.
b. We're not planning to have another meeting.
c. We're suspending all future meetings.
d. We're going to have to hold it at a later date.
2. "Something has come up" means:
a. Someone has brought up a point.
b. A price has gone up.
c. Costs have suddenly increased.
d. An unexpected problem has arisen.
3. "I must pick the children up from school" means:
a. I must put them to school.
b. I must take them from school.
c. I must drive them to school.
d. I must leave them at school.
4. What is the meaning of the following definition: A phrase to say when something that is
illegal has been found and is being stopped
a. Cross that bridge when I come to it
b. Fight tooth and nail
c. Jig is up.
d. Point of no return
5. What is the meaning of the following definition: To make a mistake?
a. Drag your feet
b. Variety is the spice of life
c. Wash your hands of it
d. Fall flat on my face.
6. We are having a pot-luck dinner at Tim's house tomorrow. Everybody is invited!
a. dinner where everybody brings something to eat
b. dinner where only soup is served
c. dinner where everybody chips in
d. dinner where people eat and play games at the same time
7. I am so mad at my boyfriend. We were supposed to have a date last night at the park but he
stood me up.
a. didn't come
b. angry with me
c. took me somewhere else.
d. he didn't know
8. She's been down in the dumps since they broke up.
a. Angry
b. Crazy
c. Very sad or depressed.
d. Disappointed
9. You must look after yourself. Just look at you! Only skin and bone.
a. Very big
b. Very thin
c. Very short
d. Very small.
10. Sinta is a bookworm. She reads many books.
a. A person who likes worm
b. A person collects books
c. A person who loves reading .
d. A person who likes to borrow books
11. How are you getting along in you study of Math?
a. Along side
b. Current result.
c. Place
d. Manner
12. Do you like talk over your personal problems with someone?
a. Sharing.
b. Buying
c. Acting
d. Kicking
13. Is it easy or difficult for you to pick out gifts for your friends?
a. Throw
b. Buy
c. Take.
d. Eat
14. Do you take your time when you are writing an examination or do you prefer to finish
quickly?
a. Hurry
b. Danger
c. Study
d. Enjoy.
15. Why must Doni lie down for several hours each afternoon?
a. Play
b. Rest.
c. Work
d. Walk
[Link] is the definition of Look out for number one?
[Link] have difficulty doing something, or to experience a difficult period
[Link] help someone with something
[Link] do something so that you will get all the benefit.
[Link] be difficult to find, or to be very isolated and remote
[Link] is the definition of Lick your wounds?
[Link] swear a lot
[Link] go away and recover from a bad experience or defeat.
c.A way to ask someone what they are thinking about
[Link] start to do something before all the preparation has been finished
[Link] is the definition of Have a blast?
[Link] tell someone to be polite and to use good manners
[Link] that you find very easy to do
[Link] say that it is someone else’s responsibility to make a decision or do something
[Link] have a very good time.
[Link] is the definition of Stand on ceremony?
[Link] expect that everything is done in the proper and very formal way.
[Link] finish something or to give it away so that it is no longer your responsibility
[Link] say that having different experiences makes life fun and interesting
d. To do something slowly
20. I can never tell what Maria’s thinking she is _____
a. The apple of my eye
b. In a nutshell
c. A hard nut to crack
d. A little piece of heaven
APPENDIX 6
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2. Are the direction and the
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3 Do the topics of the instrument
appropriate?
4 Do the indicators in the test
instruments have covered generic
structure of recount text
measured?
5 Do the indicators in the test
instruments have covered all
aspect of reading comprehension ?
6 Do the indicators in the idiomatic
test instrument have covered all
aspect of idiomatic expression
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development
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STUDENTS TEST SCORE
Students’ Score
No Idiomatic Expression Reading Comprehension
1 30 50
2 30 50
3 30 50
4 30 50
5 35 55
6 35 55
7 40 55
8 35 55
9 35 55
10 40 55
11 40 60
12 45 60
13 45 60
14 50 60
15 50 60
16 40 60
17 45 60
18 45 60
19 50 60
20 50 60
21 50 65
22 55 65
23 55 65
24 55 65
25 50 65
26 55 65
27 55 65
28 55 65
29 55 70
30 60 70
31 55 70
32 60 70
33 60 75
34 60 75
35 65 75
36 65 75
37 60 75
38 60 75
39 65 75
40 65 75
41 65 80
42 70 80
43 70 80
44 65 80
45 70 80
46 70 80
47 75 85
48 75 85
49 75 85
50 75 85
51 80 90
52 80 90
53 80 90
54 85 90
55 80 90
56 80 90
57 80 90
58 85 90
59 85 95
60 85 95
61 90 95
62 90 95
63 90 95
64 90 95
Frequency Idiomatic Expression
Statistics
Idiomatic Expression
N Valid 64
Missing 0
Mean 60.16
Std. Error of Mean 2.191
Median 60.00
Mode 55
Std. Deviation 17.525
Variance 307.118
Range 60
Minimum 30
Maximum 90
Sum 3850
Idiomatic Expression
Cumulative
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Percent
Valid 30 4 6.3 6.3 6.3
35 4 6.3 6.3 12.5
40 4 6.3 6.3 18.8
45 4 6.3 6.3 25.0
50 6 9.4 9.4 34.4
55 8 12.5 12.5 46.9
60 6 9.4 9.4 56.3
65 6 9.4 9.4 65.6
70 4 6.3 6.3 71.9
75 4 6.3 6.3 78.1
80 6 9.4 9.4 87.5
85 4 6.3 6.3 93.8
90 4 6.3 6.3 100.0
Total 64 100.0 100.0
Frequency Reading Comprehension
Statistics
Reading Comprehension
N Valid 64
Missing 0
Mean 72.50
Std. Error of Mean 1.754
Median 72.50
Mode 60
Std. Deviation 14.029
Variance 196.825
Range 45
Minimum 50
Maximum 95
Sum 4640
Reading Comprehension
Cumulative
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Percent
Valid 50 4 6.3 6.3 6.3
55 6 9.4 9.4 15.6
60 10 15.6 15.6 31.3
65 8 12.5 12.5 43.8
70 4 6.3 6.3 50.0
75 8 12.5 12.5 62.5
80 6 9.4 9.4 71.9
85 4 6.3 6.3 78.1
90 8 12.5 12.5 90.6
95 6 9.4 9.4 100.0
Total 64 100.0 100.0
Normality Test
Descriptives
Students Statistic Std. Error
Idiomatic Expression and Idiomatic Expression Mean 60.16 2.191
Reading Comprehension 95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound 55.78
for Mean Upper Bound 64.53
5% Trimmed Mean 60.17
Median 60.00
Variance 307.118
Std. Deviation 17.525
Minimum 30
Maximum 90
Range 60
Interquartile Range 29
Skewness .014 .299
Kurtosis -.980 .590
Reading Comprehension Mean 72.50 1.754
95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound 69.00
for Mean Upper Bound 76.00
5% Trimmed Mean 72.50
Median 72.50
Variance 196.825
Std. Deviation 14.029
Minimum 50
Maximum 95
Range 45
Interquartile Range 25
Skewness .125 .299
Kurtosis -1.227 .590
Tests of Normality
Kolmogorov-Smirnova Shapiro-Wilk
Students Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.
*
Idiomatic Expression and Idiomatic Expression .090 64 .200 .959 64 .074
Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension .141 64 .203 .933 64 .112
*. This is a lower bound of the true significance.
a. Lilliefors Significance Correction
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Linearity Test
Report
Reading_Comprehension
Idiomatic_Expression Mean N Std. Deviation
30 50.00 4 .000
35 55.00 4 .000
40 57.50 4 2.887
45 60.00 4 .000
50 61.67 6 2.582
55 66.25 8 2.315
60 73.33 6 2.582
65 76.67 6 2.582
70 80.00 4 .000
75 85.00 4 .000
80 90.00 6 .000
85 92.50 4 2.887
90 95.00 4 .000
Total 72.50 64 14.029
ANOVA Table
Sum of Mean
Squares df Square F Sig.
Reading_Comprehensio Between (Combined) 12212.500 12 1017.708 276.817 .178
n* Groups Linearity 12059.146 1 12059.146 3280.088 .142
Idiomatic_Expression Deviation from 153.354 11 13.941 3.792 .201
Linearity
Within Groups 187.500 51 3.676
Total 12400.000 63
Measures of Association
R R Squared Eta Eta Squared
Reading_Comprehension * .986 .973 .992 .985
Idiomatic_Expression
Hypothetical Test
Correlations
Idiomatic_Expres Reading_Compre
sion hension
Idiomatic_Expression Pearson Correlation 1 .986**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 64 64
Reading_Comprehension Pearson Correlation .986** 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 64 64
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
RESEARCH DOCUMENTATION
1. The researcher explained about the research to the students that was about idiomatic expression and
reading comprehension
4. The researcher monitored the students in doing the test of reading comprehension
RESEARCH DOCUMENTATION ONLINE
Indonesian EFL students face several challenges with idiomatic expressions. They struggle to find and translate idiomatic expressions between Indonesian and English, which makes understanding text meanings difficult. This difficulty is heightened by the students' lack of vocabulary and inability to discern the true meaning of idiomatic phrases within texts .
Background knowledge and vocabulary are crucial for reading comprehension. Individuals with broader background knowledge have an advantage since they can relate personal experiences and knowledge to the text, facilitating understanding. A strong vocabulary is essential as it helps in correctly interpreting words and idioms which are frequently encountered in various forms of text .
Idiomatic expressions are considered building blocks of language and civilization because they encapsulate cultural references and collective shared experiences, thus providing insights into societal values and communication norms. They enrich language by offering non-literal expressions that convey specific meanings understood within cultural contexts .
The researcher concluded that there is a significant positive impact of idiomatic expression mastery on students’ reading comprehension. Students who are proficient in idioms are generally better at understanding texts, as this proficiency reflects an enhanced ability to process complex linguistic structures, thus leading to improved comprehension skills .
Recount text is chosen because it commonly includes idiomatic expressions due to its informal style. This text type often reflects daily life situations and stories, providing a suitable context for analyzing how well students can apply their knowledge of idioms to comprehend meaning and context within the text .
To overcome difficulties with idiomatic expressions, it is suggested that students be trained to use context clues and an understanding of metaphorical language to discern idioms. Additionally, watching foreign media like talk shows and films can help students become familiar with idiomatic expressions in practical use, allowing them to improve comprehension through repetition and context exposure .
Training students to recognize and interpret idiomatic expressions can significantly enhance their reading comprehension skills. By learning idioms using context clues or metaphorical language, students improve their linguistic processing abilities. Resources like watching native English media can familiarize students with the practical use of idioms, which aids in better comprehension of texts that include such expressions .
Idiomatic expressions differ from the sum of their individual words' meanings because they cannot be understood by interpreting each word separately. Instead, idioms convey a meaning interrelated from their constituent words, forming a phrase with a figurative or culturally specific significance that goes beyond the literal interpretation of the words involved .
Comprehension of idiomatic expressions enhances students' general abilities to process linguistic information. Students who are skilled in understanding and using idioms tend to perform better in comprehending texts because this skill is indicative of their broader ability to process and make sense of linguistic nuances, which is crucial for reading comprehension .
The study describes a high correlation between students' mastery of idiomatic expressions and their reading comprehension. Mastering idioms contributes significantly to understanding the meaning and context in recount texts, as these texts often use idiomatic expressions frequently. This skill in understanding idioms directly relates to improved reading comprehension abilities among the students .