THE EFFECT OF USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE TECHNIQUE ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 3 BANGSALSARI JEMBER

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The Effect of Using Think-Pair-Share Technique on the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember in the 2012/2013 Academic Year; Diyah Reni Fauziyati, 080210401006; 2013:56 pages; English Language Education Study Program of Language and Arts Education Department, The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University.

Think-Pair-Share technique is one of the types of in cooperative learning that creates a more active process. This technique can be applied in a large class to solve students’ problem in reading and make them to be more interactive to learn. It is a good technique, that can help the students to solve their problems and help one another. The research problem of this research was formulated as follow “Is there any significant effect of using Think-Pair-Share technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember?”, while the objective of the research was to investigate whether there was a significant effect of using Think-Pair-Share technique on of the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember. The area of this research was SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember. The research design was the experimental research which was conducted to investigate whether or not there is a significant effect of using Think-Pair-Share technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 3 Bangsalsari Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling through lottery. The total number of the respondents was 61 students consisted of 31 students of VIII C as the experimental group taught by using Think-Pair-Share technique, while the xiv

control group consisted of 30 students of VIII B taught by using Conventional technique (Lecturing and Question-Answer). The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of reading comprehension test, interview, documentation and observation. The reading comprehension test was administered from pre-test and post-test to know the comparison between the two groups before and after the treatment, and the result was analyzed by using t-test formula. Based on the computation of the t-test formula of the scores of the pre test and post test on reading comprehension achievement test, it showed that the statistical value of t-test was 2.55 while the value of t-table at significant level of 5% with df 59 was 2.00. It indicated that there was a significant effect of using Think-Pair-Share technique on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SPMN 3 Bangsalsari Jember. Based on the result of this research, the English teacher is suggested to use and apply the Think-Pair-Share technique in teaching reading to make the students to be more active in developing their thinking about the reading text, and make the situation of the class more alive. It was proved that Think-Pair-Share technique can make the students able to understanding and comprehending the material when they do the tasks in a group. Moreover, it is suggested that the result of this research can be used by the future researchers as a reference or information in conducting the same study for the future researchers by using different language skills such as the effect of Think-Pair-Share technique on the students’ speaking achievement to different level of students.