THE INFLUENCE OF USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ATTHE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE AT SMPN 2 TERBANGGI BESAR CENTRAL LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

Tusiana, Sulina (2018) THE INFLUENCE OF USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ATTHE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE AT SMPN 2 TERBANGGI BESAR CENTRAL LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

Reading is one of language skills that should be mastered by the students. in reading the text we can find knowledge, information that we never know before. The students’ reading comprehension at SMPN 2 Terbanggi Besar Central Lampung is still low especially in reading descriptive text. To solve this problem, the writer applied think-pair-share. Think-pair-share is one of good techniques that can be implemented by the students as individual or in group. The objective of this research is to know whether there is significant influence of using think-pair-share technique towards students reading comprehension on descriptive text at the seventh grade of the second semester at SMPN 2 Terbanggi Besar. In this research, the writer used quantitative research. The writer used quasi experimental design with pre-test and post-test. The sample was taken from two classes, VII B and VII D which consisted of 60 students. The treatments were held in 3 meetings, 2 x 40 minute for each. The population of this research was the seventh grade students at SMPN 2 Terbanggi Besar Central Lampung. In collecting the data, the writer used instrument in the form of multiple choice test. After conducting the try-out, the instruments were used for the pre-test and post-test. After giving the pre-test and post-test, the writer analyzed the data by using SPSS to compute independent sample t-test. After testing the hypothesis, the result was that there is a significant influence of using think-pair-share toward students’ reading comprehension on descriptive text at the seventh grade of the second semester at SMPN 2 Terbanggi Besar Central Lampung. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig. = 0.003 and α = 0.05. It means Ha is accepted because Sig. <α = 0.003<0.05.In other words, from this research, it was known that think-pair-share influence the students’ reading comprehension on descriptive text. So, there was influence of using think-pair-share towards students’ reading comprehension on descriptive text at the seventh grade of the second semester at SMPN 2 Terbanggi Besar Central Lampung

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