Global Expert: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol 6, No 1

USING THINK PAIR SHARE TECHNIQUE WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE TENTH GRADERS OF SMA LTI IGM PALEMBANG

Sri Muryani (Indo Global Mandiri University)
Jaya Nur Iman (Indo Global Mandiri University)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Jul 2017

Abstract

The objectives of this research attempted to investigate whether or not using Think Pair Share (TPS) Technique gave significant improvement and significant difference on the tenth graders’ reading comprehension achievement of SMA LTI IGM. A quasi experimental design was used in this research. Two groups, experimental and control group, were assigned in this research in which each group consisted of 20 students, respectively. Intervention was given for 12 meetings including pretest and posttest administration. Reading comprehension test, in form of multiple choice question, was administered to measure the students’ reading comprehension. The research findings showed that (1) there was a significant improvement on the tenth graders’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught by using Think Pair Share Technique, and (2) there was a signifiant mean difference on the tenth graders’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught by using Think Pair Share Technique and those who were not. Therefore, the TPS technique significantly improved the tenth graders’ reading comprehension achievement of SMA LTI IGM.Key words : Think pair share technique, descriptive text, reading comprehension

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Journal Info

Abbrev

GE

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra contains research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year July and December by the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Indo Global Mandiri. It is ...