The Effectiveness of Think Pair Share to Improve Students’ Reading Ability at the Second Grade Students of SMA N 1 Wadaslintang in the Academic Year 2011/2012

Abstract

The objective of the study is to describe the effectiveness of Think Pair Share method to teach reading to the second grade students of SMA N 1Wadaslintang and to know the result of teaching reading using Think Pair Share method to the second grade students of SMA N 1 Wadaslintang. It is expected that the result of the study will provide a deeper understanding about using Think Pair Share as a teaching method for English teachers and also for the readers. In order to achieve the objective of this study, the writer will design a quasi experiment using pre-test and post-test. The population of this study is the second grade student of SMA N 1Wadaslintang in the Academic Year 2011/2012. The sample of this study is class A Class as experimental group that consist of 32, and B class as control group that consists of 30 students. Before the experiment was conducted, the students were given a pre-test for both groups. At the end of the experiment, each group was given a post-test. The result of the study showed that the students’ progress of experimental group in mastering reading ability was really good. In computation t test, alpha level used is 0.05. In the df n1 + n2 – 2= 32 + 30 – 2= 60, t table score was 1,671. Based on the score obtained, t value is higher than t table (3.89>1.671). Therefore, the researcher can conclude that the use of Think Pair Share method is effective to improve students’ reading ability. Based on the result of the study, the researcher suggested that the use of Think Pair Share method can be an alternative way to teach the language learner, especially to improve the students’ reading ability. This result hopefully would motivate language teacher to use Think Pair Share method in teaching English in the classroom, especially when teaching English reading to the level of Senior High School students.