IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION USING NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 18 BANDAR LAMPUNG
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Keterampilan membaca untuk pelajar bahasa asing masih menjadi masalah yang krusial. Dengan demikian, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada i) perbedaan signifikan terhadap pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan small group discussion technique, dan ii) aspek mana yang paling meningkat setelah diajar menggunakan teknik ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan One group pre-test and post-test design. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dari pre-test and post-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa ada perbedaan yang signifikan pada pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan small group discussion dilihat dari t-value yang lebih besar dari t-table. Ini menunjukan bahwa small group discussion technique dapat meningkatkan pemahaman membaca siswa. Hasil selanjutnya menunjukan bahwa determining main idea adalah aspek yang paling meningkat setelah mengimplementasikan small group discussion technique.
Reading skills−for foreign learners−still cause crucial problems. For this very reason, this research aimed to find out i) whether there was a significant improvement on students reading comprehension after being taught through small group discussion technique, and ii) which aspect that improves the most after being taught by this technique. This research used one group pre-test and post-test design. The data were collected from a pre-test and a post-test. The results of this study showed that there was significant improvement of students reading comprehension after being taught through small group discussion technique where the t-value was higher than t-table. It is proved that small group discussion technique is able to improve students’ reading comprehension. The second finding referred to determine main idea was the highest aspect that improved after implementing small group discussion technique.
Keywords: reading Comprehension, small group discussion technique, teaching reading, reading aspect.
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