The Implementation of Think Pair Share Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension of Tenth Grade at SMK Asy-Syafa’ah Jember.

DIANA FITRI, - (2021) The Implementation of Think Pair Share Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension of Tenth Grade at SMK Asy-Syafa’ah Jember. Undergraduate thesis, FACULTY OF TARBIYAH AND TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM ENGLISH EDUCATION.

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Diana Fitri, 2021: The Implementation of Think Pair Share Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension of Tenth Grade at SMK Asy-Syafa’ah Jember. This research is about the implementation of Think Pair Share technique to improve students’ reading comprehension. Reading comprehension is not only some activities of translating words and read the text by correct pronunciation, but also it dealing with comprehends the text. In the preliminary study, the researcher found that the students’ difficulty was reading comprehension. The students also less enthusiastic when teaching learning process and most of them were still passive in the class. Based on the data from English teacher, there were only 23% of students who reached the passing grades and 77% of students who did not achieve passing grades. It means that the students need something new in teaching learning process. Hence, Think Pair Share technique is suitable technique in teaching reading to the condition of teaching learning process in this class because, the foundation of Think Pair Share technique to make the students more active in teaching learning process with their classmates. Therefore, the researcher and English teacher collaboratively used Think Pair Share technique to improve students’ reading comprehension. The research question of the research is formulated as follows; “How can the implementation of Think Pair Share technique improve the students’ reading comprehension of tenth grade at SMK Asy-Syafa’ah Jember?” The research objectives are to describe how the implementation of Think Pair Share technique can improve the students’ reading comprehension of tenth grade at SMK Asy- Syafa’ah Jember In this research, the researcher conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the research method. In the class room action research (CAR) there was some steps; those were planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The participant of this research was the of tenth grades at SMK Asy-Syafa’ah Jember which consists of 13 students that includes 5 males and 8 females. The data of this research was completed by using reading comprehension test, interview, observation and document review. This research was carried out in one cycle. After using Think Pair Share technique, the students’ reading comprehension was improved. The result of students’ reading comprehension score showed that the mean score was 74,4. There were 10 students or 77% of the total students who got the score above the passing grade. Meanwhile, there were 3 students who did not reach the average score. This research can be said successful if the research was reached the criteria of success. The criteria of success in this research is the number of students who reach the minimum score (70) is equal to or higher than 70% of total students. It can be concluded that the result could achieve the criteria of success. There were improvements in students’ reading comprehension. They had already known about the topic of the text, mean idea of the text, determining the specific information, general information, and their vocabulary were better. They could determine about the synonym and antonym. In the other hand, students are more active and could enjoy in the class. Hence, by discussing with a group, it motivated them to learn and the students were eager competing to share the right answer in the whole class. The researcher also gave suggestion for English teacher to increase the students’ interest in reading comprehension by applying Think Pair Share technique or other technique that could help the students be active and enjoy the class. The researcher also gave suggestion for the further researcher to develop their research with new innovation such as the implementing Think Pair Share technique with different skill. Key Words: students’ reading comprehension, Think Pair Share technique.

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