Teaching Reading of Narrative Text Through Think Pair Share Technique at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Banjar Margo

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan dalam kemampuan pemahaman membaca setelah belajar dengan menggunakan teknik “think pair share”. Penelitian ini adalah desain kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian ini sebanyak 30 siswa. Tes membaca digunaan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil menunjukan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik pada kemampuan pemahaman membaca siswa dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.00<0.05. Dapat disarankan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunaan teknik “think pair share” dapat membantu siswa untuk menemukan informasi pada teks dengan mudah.

The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension ability after they were taught through “think pair share” technique. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 30 students. The reading test was administrated as the instrument of this research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students’ reading comprehension ability at the significant level 0.00<0.05. This suggests that reading through “think pair share” technique facilitates the students to find information of the text easily.

Keywords: think-pair-share technique, reading comprehension, narrative text.