%0 Journal Article
%A 0813042026, Devina Adinda
%D 2012
%F eprints:16796
%J Digital Library
%T A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING  COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN LEFT-BRAIN AND  RIGHT-BRAIN DOMINATED STUDENTS AT THE SECOND YEAR  OF SMAN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/16796/
%X A lot of factors could affect the difference of students’ reading comprehension  achievement. Among those factors, cognitive style of the students had a big deal  in different of students’ reading comprehension achievement. The research  focused on left-brain and right-brain dominance toward reading comprehension  achievement as a cognitive style aspect of the students. Many teachers did not pay  attention to this cognitive style aspect.  Related to the statements above, the objective of the research was to find out  whether there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension  between left-brain and right-brain dominated students. This research used ex post  facto design. The population of this research was the second year students of  SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung. The sample of this research was XI IPA1 and was  selected by using random sampling through lottery. In collecting the data, the  researcher administered the questionnaire and reading comprehension test. The  data were analyzed by using independent group t-test, in which the significance  was determined by p<0.05. The significant two tailed of the reading score was  0.001, it means that 0.001<0.05. Therefore, it can be concluded that there was a  significant difference of reading comprehension achievement between left-brain  dominated and right-brained dominated students. In other words, the alternative  hypothesis was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected.