A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT TAUGHT BY USING THINIK-PAIRSHARE STRATEGY AT SMA PGRI 6 GENTENG, BANYUWANGI

Abstract

Based on the result of informal interview, it was known that the English teacher applied Think-Pair-Strategy in reading report text. The text which had been used in teaching learning process was taken from the worksheet, internet, and Creative English book. The data of the test which were in the form of percentage score was analyzed by using descriptive statistic. It was found that the highest percentage is sentence comprehension, with 73.14 % and belongs to “good” category. Then it is followed by word comprehension in 71.18% and categorized as “good”. The percentage of paragraph comprehension is 67.12% with interval 60-69, and categorized as “fair”. “Fair” category also happens with the text comprehension in range 60-69 and percentage is 68.33%. In this case, the lowest indicator in percentage is paragraph comprehension with the percentage of 67.12%. In other words, there were only 67.12% of 36 students who get score in range 60-69 in term of the paragraph comprehension. Then, based on the result of this research, it shows that the mean score of all the four levels of reading comprehension by using TPS strategy in SMA PGRI 6 Genteng, Banyuwangi were 69.94% and categorized as “good”. It means, from the 36 students of tenth grade, there were 25 students who able to reach the required standard score or SKM (70).