Integrating tri hita karana values in teaching reading: students’ and teachers’ opinions

This paper aims at explaining: students’ and teachers’ opinion on reading materials integrating Tri Hita Karana values and students’ reading comprehension before and after the implementation of that reading materials. The data of the study were collected through questionnaire, scoring rubric, pre-test, and post-test. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The result of the study shows that the students and teachers have positive opinion toward the reading materials that integrate Tri Hita Karana values. It can be seen from the result of the questionnaire that shows both the students and the teachers gave more positive comments than negative comments. The result of the scoring rubric that aims at measuring the quality of the reading materials shows that both the students and the English teachers gave a high score that indicates the reading materials have a high quality. Furthermore, the implementation of reading materials that integrate Tri Hita Karana values also improved students’ reading comprehension. It is proven by the result of pre-test and post-test that were delivered before and after the implementation of the reading materials that integrate Tri Hita Karana values.During the pre-test, the students’mean score was 65,18 and it improved into 74.29 on the post test.