Author (Penulis)

Eka putri rahayu
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0162

Abstract

ABSTRACT In reading skills, students are expected to identify the main idea, general, specific information, implied meaning and determine the communicative function of the text in learning English. However, they still have difficulties in comprehending texts because the teacher only teaches reading comprehension in traditional way. This paper aims to investigate the effect of Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS helps to enhance students’ abilities of the thinking process and understand what they comprehend through active helping and supporting among students, and it allows for the reader to connect meaning. Thus, the purpose of this research is to know the effect of PALS on students’ reading comprehension. This is a quantitative study applying pre-experimental design with one-group pre-test–post-test. Then, the subject is the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri. The population is 57 students and 26 students are taken through simple random sampling. The result shows that students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught using PALS. This statement is a result when the mean of post-test is higher than the mean of pre-test. The mean of pre-test is 69,85, while the mean of post-test is 80,15. It also proven by the value of t-score (11,85) which higher than the value of t-table in the degree of significance 1% (2,485) the degree of freedom is 25. In conclusion, Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) can make the students easier to understand the content of the text such as; finding the main idea, finding detail information, guessing meaning of difficult words from the context, and creating meaning to the whole text. Keywords: Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies, PALS, Reading Comprehension

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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