The knowledge of culture and literature that has been studied in this university is not maximal and in accordance with the needs of Chinese literature students in Indonesia because it is so this research will focus on the making of teaching materials by taking aspects of the mastery Chinese literature and culture. This teaching material research will use literary and cultural themes with a contextual approach. The focus of the problem in this research is the effectiveness of reading material of literature and culture based on contextual developed. To test the effectiveness of the model the researcher has conducted experimental teaching material using pre-experimental theory so that only implemented in one reading class at Darma Persada University Jakarta with18 respondents students. The final semester test data is used as a post test and the pretest is executed at the beginning of the lesson. The results of post test and pretest are tested by t-Test. Teaching material used in the experimental class is a model of developmental teaching materials made by researcher. The t-test results show that T count (4.060) is greater than T table (2.101), thus it can be concluded that this significant mean difference means Ho is rejected and H1 is accepted. Thus the teaching material model of reading literature and contextual based culture is more effective in improving students' reading skill in 5th semester better than convensional materials.
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