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Improving The Reading Comprehension through The Use of Think Pair Square at The Second Grade Students of UPT SMPN 1 Srengat Blitar

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Title Improving The Reading Comprehension through The Use of Think Pair Square at The Second Grade Students of UPT SMPN 1 Srengat Blitar
 
Creator Suyantri, Suyantri
 
Description Reading plays a very essential role in the context of the teaching of English as a foreign language in Indonesia. In fact, it is one of the supporting skills that students should master if they want to acquire a good mastery of English. Because of its position, reading becomes a very important language skill to be  developed in the classroom and consequently the teaching and learning English should be devoted very much for students to develop this receptive skill.
.           In practice of teaching and learning, reading  is a complex process of  interaction between writers and readers through printed symbols  in the form of texts which requires the readers to master certain skills so that they can catch  the intended message in the texts. Texts  should be presented in suitable, readable and exploitable ways so that  they can be comprehended by their readers . The readers, however, should have reading strategies to apply in order to make reading process run smoothly and faster and finally the intended  messages are caught . There are a number of factors affecting  the success of reading namely a teacher’s reading competence, students’ competence and the characteristics  of the reading materials itself. In second language classes, background knowledge and reading skill constitute the most supporting factors in reading comprehension.             
This Classroom Action Research (CAR) has an objective to improve the reading comprehension of the second year students of UPT SMPN 1 Srengat Blitar through the use of Think Pair Square method. The subjects of this study were  32 students of  class VIII-G SMPN 1 Srengat Blitar in academic year of 2020- 2021, while the object of this study was the technique of teaching reading using Think Pair Square strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The action in the study was conducted  in two cycles with four stages of planning, implementing, observing and reflecting on each.
Based on the observation on the students’ achievement in cycle two, the students’  average score improved from  79 in the first  cycle to 80 in the second cycle . Their classical mastery also improved from 77% in the  cycle one to  87% in cycle  two. In short, it can be concluded that in the last cycle, students had really made significant progress. Uniquely, the lower and middle students seemed to benefit more the method compared to the upper students indicated by their score  in the  first and second test. Therefore, English teachers are advisable to adopt the Think Pair square strategy in teaching reading. Besides, they are also encouraged to apply the strategy by using experimental design.
The data taken from the observation sheets on the teacher’s and students’ performance done by the  collaborator, field note made by the teacher, and mainly the students’ achievement at the last  test  proved the Think Pair Square strategy to be effective in improving the students’ reading comprehension.
 
 
Publisher Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Blitar
 
Date 2022-03-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.unublitar.ac.id/index.php/jtpdm/article/view/332
10.28926/jtpdm.v2i1.332
 
Source Jurnal Terapan Pendidikan Dasar dan Menengah; Vol 2 No 1 (2022): Volume 2, Nomor 1, Maret 2022; 242-257
10.28926/jtpdm.v2i1
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.unublitar.ac.id/index.php/jtpdm/article/view/332/253
 
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