INCREASING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH MAKE A MATCH TYPE OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Komang Wastawan, Cucu Sutarsyah, Sudirman Sudirman

Abstract


Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat sebuah perbedaan yang signifikan dari pencapaian pemahaman membaca siswa sebelum dan setelah diajarkan menggunakan tipe make a match pembelajaran koperatif dan mengetahui apakah terdapat sebuah peningkatan dari pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan tipe make a match pembelajaran koperatif. Sampel dari penelitian ini adalah kelas X1 dari kelas sepuluh SMAN 1 Seputih Banyak pada tahun 2013/2014. Penelitian ini diterapkan dengan menggunakan satu kelompok desain pretest posttest. Hasil dari pembelajaran membaca dengan menggunakan tipe make a match  pembelajaran koperatif menunjukan bahwa terdapat sebuah perbedaan yang signifikan dalam pemahaman membaca siswa (p < 0.05, p= 0.00). nilai rata-rata posttest (64.79) lebih tinggi daripada nilai rata-rata pretest (51.48), dan memiliki peningkatan 13.31. Hal tersebut berarti bahwa terdapat sebuah peningkatan dari pencapaian pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan tipe make a match pembelajaran koperatif.

The aims of this research were to find out whether there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension achievement before and after being taught through make a match type of cooperative learning and to find if there was an increase of students’ reading comprehension after the instruction. The sample of this research was class X1 of the first grade of SMA in the year 2013/2014. The research applied one group pre-test post-test design. The result of the reading study by using make a match type of cooperative learning showed that there was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension since (p < 0.05, p = 0.00). The average of post-test score (64.79) was higher than that of pre-test (51.48), and it has gain 13.31. It means that there is an increase of students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through make a match type of cooperative learning.

 

Keywords: cooperative learning, make a match type, reading comprehension.

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