The Use of Online Literature Circles to Enhance the Students’ Critical Reading Skills

Titi Rokhayati, Erna Alvionita

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This research aims to find out whether using Online Literature Circles to enhance the student's critical reading skills is effective or not. This research belongs to quantitative research using a pre-experimental design. The population of this research is eleventh-grade students of SMK N 1 Puring in the academic year of 2020/2021 which consists of 382 students. The sample of this research is XI TKPI 1 consist of 34 students. The data were taken virtual from 17th May 2021 to 31st May 2021. The technique of the data collection is using a test. It was done by giving an online pre-test and online post-test. Meanwhile, the technique of data analysis used descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The result of this research shows that the mean score of the pre-test is 49.79 which belongs to fairly sufficient category, and the mean score of the post-test is 70.79 which belongs to the good category. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the researchers use t-test through IBM SPSS 25. The result two-sided significant value is 0.000. Based on the 0.05 significant level, the computation shows the two-sided significance value is lower than 0.05 (0.000<0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that Online Literature Circles is effective to enhance the students' critical reading skills at the eleventh-grade students of SMK N 1 Puring in the academic year of 2020/2021.

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Critical Reading; Online Literature Circles;

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