THE EFFECT OF TEAM GAMES TOURNAMENT ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT.

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THE EFFECT OF TEAM GAMES TOURNAMENT

ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION

ACHIEVEMENT

A THESIS

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the

Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

PHUPUH CITRA DEWI

Registration Number: 2113321038

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The greatest gratitude is expressed to Allah SWT, the Almighty and Most Beneficial for His Grace, Guidance, Praise, Honor and Mercy that has been given

to writer so that she finally accomplishes her thesis entitled “The Effect of Team

Games Tournament on Students’s Reading Comprehension Achievement ”. This thesis is submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State university of Medan as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for taking the degreeof Sarjana Pendidikan. During the completion of this thesis, the writer realized that she had received a lot of help, and suggestion. Therefore, the writer would like to express her sincerest gratitude to :

 Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom M.Pd., Rector of State University of Medan.  Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and

Arts State University of Medan and all her staffs.

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English Department.

 Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English Department and Her Thesis Reviewers.

 Nora Ronita Dewi, S.Pd, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of English Education Study Program.

 Dra. Yunita Agnes Sianipar, M.Hum, Academic Advisor, who has given support, guidance and kindness for helping this thesis.

 Dr. Sri Minda Murni, M.S., her first Thesis Advisor.

 Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., her second Thesis Advisor.

 Dr. Anni Holila Pulungan, M.Hum., Dra. Meisuri, M.A., Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar, S.Pd. M.Hum., her Thesis Reviewers.

 All lectures who have taught her in this English Department, for giving giving permission and helping the writer to do this research.

 Eis Sriwahyuningsih, M.Pd., and Pantes, the administration staff of English Department, for their attention, asistance, and information in completing this thesis.

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and Anggriny Parapat).Thank you for your kindness, support, pray to Ahman Tanjung.

 Her beloved friends, the students of English Department, Ayu , Fitri , Fira , Karmila , Khalida and Khairin , Intan from Reg C also the other students in Extension A,B,C 2011 for always be there when she needed their support and motivation. Her beloved close friends and Arif , Renny , Rony , Tami , and all people who cannot be mentioned one by one, she says thank you.

Overall, the writer hopes this thesis can give contribution to the English Education students and further pedagogical research. And also it can be useful for the readers.

Medan, September 2015 The Writer

Phupuh Citra Dewi

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ABSTRACT

Dewi, Phupuh Citra. The Effect of Team Games Tournament on

Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement. A Thesis. English

Department. Faculty of Language and Arts. State University of Medan. 2015.

This study attempts to discover the effect of using Team Games Tournament Technique on students’ achievement in reading report text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the eleventh (XI) grade students of SMA Hang Tuah Belawan which consists of 4 parallel classes with the total number of students is 120. The samples of this research were taken by random sampling through lottery technique. The result was class XI1 consisted of 30 students became the experimental group and class XI3 consisted of 30 students became the control group. The experimental group was taught by Team Games Tournament Technique while the control group was taught by using lecture technique. The instrument was used to collect the data was reading report text. After the data were analyzed, it was found that the value of t-test was 5,50 with the degree of freedom (df) = 58 at the level significance 0.05. it means that t-test was higher than t-table (5,50 > 2,000. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted.

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of the Study

As one of four important skills of a language, reading can be a gateway to

success for the people in the world. Reading has important role for the students to comprehend and get the information from the text. Generally, reading is taught at

a very young age, beginning before kindergarten. According to Grabe and Stoller (2002: 9) reading is the ability of understanding the meaning from the printed page and interprets the information appropriately. It means that reading is useless

without comprehending and interpreting any ideas of the text. Reading comprehension can also increase students’ horizon. Therefore, the teaching

reading process should be enjoyable in order to improve students reading comprehension.

In fact, most of students always get difficulties when they are asked to

read and comprehend some texts. Based on the writer’s observation in SMA HANGTUAH Belawan, student’s achievement in reading is still very low

especially in understanding several types of text. There are some factors that cause this, they are :(1) Students felt bored when they saw some paragraphs in reading texts,(2) the students are still confused about the mean of the sentences, how to set

the main idea systematically, and how to conclude the sentences,(3) the strategy of the teacher who uses contain technique in memorize students to read encourage

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the text, such as a report text. Report text referred to a text which describe or given information about something based on facts.

There are some general reasons why some students have difficulty with reading comprehension. Some students have difficulties because they have not

truly mastered reading fluently. It was difficult for the students to find a main idea in a text. Not only that, when a student is struggling to read words and focuses so hard on just saying the words correctly, they are not focusing on what they are

reading. All of their cognitive ability is being put into calling out the correct words properly and only put a little effort into the meaning of what is being read

(Woolley, 2010).

The writer found the same problem with students in SMA HANGTUAH Belawan. The problems are students still feel strange and face some difficulties

with English lesson, especially in developing reading comprehension. The problems faced in the class are sometimes the students have difficulties to find out

the mean of a sentence in a text. The Minimal Completeness Criteria (KKM) applied for the eleventh grade (XI) by school is 72. Most students get the score under Minimal Completeness Criteria (KKM) of English lesson for Senior High

School. The score of reading test from the students can be seen in Table 1.1 Table 1.1 The Second Grade (XI) Students’ Score of Reading Test

Semesters Score Students Percentage Mean

1st Semester 2014/2015 <72 20 63,57

52,5

≥72 10 81,17

2nd Semester 2014/2015 <72 17 48,66

62,5

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From the data above, it can be concluded that the students’ ability in reading in that class is still low. It can be seen from the mean of the students’

score where the mean is still under the Minimal Completeness Criteria

There are many ways that can be used to solve the problems, such as,

CIRC is a comprehensive program of teaching reading and writing in the upper elementary and middle grades. STAD is one of the simplest of all cooperative learning methods and is a good model to begin with for teachers who are new to

cooperative approach. TAI as designed to allow each students to progress at his own rate, working on the skills he or she most needs. Jigsaw is a cooperative

learning structure applicable to team assignments that call for expertise in several distinct areas. In this study, the writer will use Team Games Tournament technique.

Teams-Games-Tournament is one of the team learning strategies designed by Slavin for review and mastery learning of material (Mahony (2006: 2)). Slavin has found that TGT increased basic skills, students’ achievement, positive

interactions between students, acceptance of mainstreamed classmates and self-esteem. Team Games Tournament technique is one learning model in cooperative

learning which the student will have opportunities to work collaboratively, learn faster and more positive about the learning experience. Besides, the students will

work together on academic tasks in small groups to help themselves and their team to learn together.

In Team Games Tournament technique, learning activities combine with

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Besides, this technique will raise students' responsibility, being cooperative, healthy emulation, and learning involvement. Team Games Tournament uses the

teacher presentations, team work, weekly tournaments, in which students play academic games with members with other teams to contribute points to their team

scores. The use of games makes Team Games Tournament even more exciting and motivating to students.

Based on a research which is conducted by Alfi (2011) in eleventh grade of MAN Malang II Batu, he was success for improving students’ reading

comprehension using team games tournament. They were enthusiastic to follow

this activity. It was proven by the average score of the students that were 87 in the test. The implementation of TGT can improve the students’ reading

comprehension. Another research which is done by Kamla-Raj (2011) TGT

technique is more effective than the lecture method. Results indicated that there were differences in achievement test scores and significantly positive attitude

towards economics education. The findings reveal that the TGT is a more effective teaching technique compared to the traditional lecture method in economics education.

Based on the explanation above, the writer will focus on conducting a research to investigate the effect of TGT Technique on students’ achievement in

reading comprehension.

B. The Problem of the Study

In relation with the background of the study mentioned, the problem was

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using team games tournament technique on students’ reading comprehension achievement?"

C. The Objective of the Study

The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of using team

games tournament technique on students’ reading comprehension achievement.

D. The Scope of the Study

The study was focused on the effect of team games tournament technique

on students’ reading comprehension achievement.

E. The Significance of the Study

Finding of the study was expected to be useful and relevant theoretically and practically.

Theoretically, findings of the study are useful to enrich knowledge on theories of language learning. The findings will enhance previous theories on the foreign language learning.

Practically, the findings were useful and relevant to:

1. English teachers; this research provides significant information in their attempt to decide the technique of teaching reading in senior high school, 2. The readers; this research is useful to increase their knowledge about TGT 3. Other researchers; this research can be used as reference

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