THINK-PAIR SHARE DISCUSSION FOR TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION IN 11th GRADE STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PANCASILA PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015
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2015-02-25
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Prodi. PBI, FKIP, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo
Abstract
Muhtar, 2015. Think-Pair Share Discussion for Teaching Reading Comprehension
of 11th grade students of SMA Pancasila Purworejo in the academic year
2014/2015.A Thesis. English Education Program, Teacher Training and Education
Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo, Consultant: Dr. Sudar M. Pd.
This study is aimed at improving reading comprehension of the eleven grade
students of SMA Pancasila Purworejo in academic year 2014/2015 through think-
Pair share technique. Reading is one important skill in English which should be
mastered by the students. Research question under study is formulated as follow: is
a Think-Pair Share Discussion able to improve students reading skill of the eleven
grade of SMA Pancasila Purworejo in academic year 2014 / 2015? The total number
of the population in this research is 61 students from three classes. The sample of
this research is 40 students from two classes, XI IIS consist of 20 students as the
control group, and XI MIA consist of 20 students as the experimental group. The
instrument is through narrative test (reading comprehension a text) which is
conducted on July 19th, 21th, 2014 for pre-test, and on July 22th, 2014 for post-test.
Statistically, the researcher analyses the data by using t-test polled variant.
The result of this research found that the use of students’ think-pair share
discussion is effective to improve students’ reading comprehension. In this
research, there is positive and significant effect of using students’ think-pair share
discussion on students’ reading comprehension. The result compared to the value
of t-table (6.37>1.686). Then, the computation of t-test shows that the Ha is
accepted. The highest score from the whole score-both control and experimental,
and both pre-test and post-test, was 88. It was achieved after they got the treatments
in experimental group. Then, the lowest score was 44. The lowest score was
achieved by the student in control group. After the test, the average scores were
found that the mean pre-test of the experimental group was 56.40, and the
experimental group has mean score 82.40 in post-test. Moreover, the mean pre-test
of the control group was 52.20, while the post-test of control group has mean score
72.80. If the value of t-test is higher than t-table, the alternative hypothesis can be
stated that it is effective to use think-pair share discussion as technique in teaching
reading comprehension at the eleven grade students of SMA Pancasila Purworejo
in the academic year 2014/2015.
Key words: Think-Pair Share (TPS) Discussion Technique, Improving, Reading
Comprehension.