USAGE OF THE NEWS MAKER SOFTWARE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS READING SKILL 1 / Arjunan Perumal 1 1 Johor Malaysia / Kota Masai Secondary School / Email: arjuna_shal8@yahoocom Abstract In today s world of constant technological advancement the lifestyle and needs of the humans are ever-changing Therefore it is important to implement new teaching and learning techniques relevant to this technological era Nowadays it is seen that the reading skills among students are deteriorated Due to this situation the students may undergo many reading problems In order to solve this issue there is a need for an appropriate solution Those problems were looked upon and solved in this research This research was carried out on the Form 2 students reading problems which was gradually solved by the use of News Maker software program This research was conducted using a mixed-method approach Sample participants of 1 students were involved in this study Those 1 students were divided into three groups of them were grouped as the control group while another of the students were the taken as the treatment group The remaining students who were highly proficient with no apparent reading problems were discarded from the research study The study itself was carried out throughout a period of 2 months This research was carried out in SMK Taman Jasmin 2 located in Kajang Selangor The research method for this study includes pre and post testing semi-structured interviews and observations This research had shown significant improvement on the reading skills of the Form 2 students Keywords: News Maker Reading Problems Mixed Method Learning Techniques Reading Skills 47
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