Meningkatkan Pemahaman Membaca Siswa Kelas Sebelas SMA Negeri 1 Banawa Melalui Tehnik Think-Pair-Share (TPS) Tehnik

Khairul Fadjar, 2023. Improving Reading Comprehension of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Banawa through Think-Pair-Share (TPS) Technique .Skripsi English Education Study Program, Languange and Art Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Tadulako University. Under the supervision of Abdul Kamaruddin.
This research aims at finding out whether or not the implementation of Think- Pair-Share (TPS) Technique can improve the reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Banawa. This research employed a quasi experimental research design which involved two groups of students as experimental and control groups. The samples were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The samples were the students of XI IPS 2 as the experimental group and XI IPS1 as the control group. The instrument of this research was a test which was given to the sample as a pretest and posttest in the form of reading test. The result of data analysis shows that the mean score of posttest in experimental group is 76.82 which is considered higher than the mean score of posttest in control group (65.06). By applying 42 degree of freedom (df) and 0.05 level of significance, it indicates that the tconted (3.84) is higher than the ttable (2.01). As a result, it clarifies that the hypothesis of this research is accepted. In conclusion, the findings of this research reveals that students’ reading comprehension can be effectively improved by using Think-Pair-Share (TPS)