U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 8, No 1 (2019): U-JET

THE USE OF THINK-PAIR-SHARE (TPS) TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT SMA NEGERI 15 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Frilly Fadhilah Lestari (Lampung University)
Feni Munifatullah (Lampung University)
Ramlan Ginting Suka (Lampung University)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jun 2019

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatan siswa dalam pemahaman membaca melalui penerapan teknik Think-Pair-Share (TPS) dan mengetahui aspek membaca yang paling meningkat. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X IPS 3 Sekolah Menengah Atas. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu kelompok desain pretest-posttest dengan instrumen tes membaca. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan kemampuan pemahaman membaca teks naratif pada siswa karena level signifikansi menunjukan 0.000.05, dan aspek yang paling signifikan meningkat adalah menentukan ide pokok. Hasil ini membuktikan bahwa teknik Think-Pair-Share (TPS) dapat digunakan sebagai teknik alternatif untuk meningkatkan prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa.The aims of this research were to find out whether there was an improvement in students’ reading comprehension after being taught through Think-Pair-Share (TPS) technique and find out the aspect of reading that improved the most. The sample of this research was tenth grade students of IPS 3 on Senior High School. This research applied one group pretest-posttest design using reading test as the instrument. The findings showed that there was an improvement in students’ reading comprehension in narrative text since the significant value was 0.000.05, and the most significant improved aspect was determining main idea. This result proved that teaching reading using Think-Pair-Share (TPS) technique could be used as an alternative technique to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement.Keywords: think pair share technique, reading comprehension, narrative text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...