Improving students’ reading comprehension by using think pair share (TPS) at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan

Zuhri, Ismail (2017) Improving students’ reading comprehension by using think pair share (TPS) at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is done to solve the students’ problems in reading comprehension. The crucial problems that influence the students’ reading comprehension were: students’ reading achievement was low, students were passive in the class, students were lack of motivation in reading and low intensity to communicate with their friends. This research purposed to describe the improvement of students’ reading comprehension by using Think Pair Share at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan and identify the factors that influence the improving students’ reading comprehension by using Think Pair Share at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan. Related to the purposes of the study, the research design used in this study was action research. In this research, the researcher used two cycles and each cycle consisted of two meetings. The subject of the study was the students of class VIII-2 of SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan in the academic year of 2016/2017. There were 24 students as the participant and also collaborated with English teacher. The data were collected by using techniques of observation note, interview, and test (test cycle 1 and test cycle 2). The researcher analyzed students’ mean score and used t-test to know the significance improvement of students’ reading comprehension. The research findings showed that the using of TPS could improve students’ reading comprehension included students were able to: (1) identify main idea of the text; (2) identify specific information of the text; (3) identify vocabulary of the text; (4) identify textual reference; and (5) identify true or false statement. Besides, the improvement of students’ reading comprehension can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of reading test in the first cycle was 63.95 (25%) and reading test in the second cycle was 81.45 (79.16%). Based on observation note stated the class situation also improved. The improvement of class situation included: Most of students were active and communicative during teaching and learning process and the students began more enthusiastic in reading class.

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