Improving Students Reading Comprehension Achievement of Descriptive Text by Using Think-Pair-Share Technique

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada peningkatan pada pencapaian pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan teknik think-pair-share. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Data diambil melalui tes reading dalam bentuk tes pilihan ganda. Sasaran penelitian sebanyak 32 siswa pada kelas delapan di SMP Negeri 5 Bandar Lampung. Data dianalisis menggunakan Paired Sample T-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan kemampuan membaca siswa dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.05. Oleh karena itu, dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunakan teknik think-pair-share dapat membantu siswa dalam mengingkatkan pencapaian pemahaman mereka dalam membaca.

The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant difference of the students reading comprehension achievement before and after the students were taught through think-pair-share technique. This research was quantitative research. The data were collected through reading tests taking the form of multiple choice test. The subjects of this research were 32 students of the eighth grade at SMP Negeri 5 Bandar Lampung. The data were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-test. The result showed that there was a statistically significant difference of the students reading comprehension achievement with the significant level of 0.05. Therefore, this suggests that reading through think-pair-share facilitates the students to improve their reading comprehension achievement.

Keywords: reading, reading comprehension, think-pair-share technique