Author (Penulis)

RETNO DWI NINGRUM
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0159

Abstract

ABSTRACT Retno Dwi Ningrum. The Effect of Teaching Reading Comprehension using Think Pair Share (TPS) Technique for Tenth Grade Students at SMA Pawiyatan Daha Kediri in Academic Year 2015/2016. THESIS, English Education Department. The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri 2014/2015. Keywords: reading, reading comprehension, TPS In comprehend a reading text, students often feel bored when they read to find and understand the paragraphs, sentences or even words. On the other hand, the teachers are mostly having problem dealing with the strategy for teaching reading. Considering the problems faced by the students, the researcher formulated the three problems in this research as follow: 1) is the students’ reading comprehension before being taught using Think Pair Share (TPS) technique?; 2) is the students’ reading comprehension after being taught using Think Pair Share (TPS) technique? And 3) Is effective the teaching reading comprehension using Think Pare Share (TPS) technique? Besides, this research was done to know whether there is TPS technique is effective in teaching reading comprehension or not; and to find out the effectiveness of students’ reading comprehension using Think Pair Share (TPS) technique of the tenth grade students at SMA Pawiyatan Daha Kediri especially in their reading comprehension before and after using TPS. The variables used in this research were reading comprehension as dependent variable and TPS technique as independent variable. Then, the approach applied in this research was quantitative approach, and the technique used was one group pre test and post test design. This research was held in SMA Pawiyatan Daha Kediri. The data were obtained from the tenth year students, of which 34 students were taken as sample. To get the data, the pre-test and post-test were apllied and then analyzed using t-test formula. From the data analysis, the researcher had concluded that TPS technique is effective to be used to teach reading comprehension. The calculation result in hypothesis testing showed that mean of students’ post-test result was increased from students’ pre-test. It is proved by the result of this research that t-score (2.313) which is higher than t-table (2,042) at level of significance 5%. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and it proved that TPS technique had significant effect to the students’ reading comprehension. In conclusion, the researcher concludes the conclusion of this research that Think Pair Share(TPS) technique is really appropriate in teaching reading comprehension and building vocabulary and also working together cooperatively. Based on the conclusion above, the writer suggests that: the teacher should be able to choose the best way to present the material,such as choosing TPS as a technique that used in teaching learning process so that the student will be able to follow teaching learning process as well as possible.

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PUBLISHED

2016-09-28

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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