THE EFFECT OF TEAM PAIR SOLO STRATEGY ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT.

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THE EFFECT OF TEAM PAIR SOLO STRATEGY ON

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING

NARRATIVE TEXT

A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

DESY FORTIN SOPINDAYA HUTABARAT

2103121010

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

First of all, the writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to God the

Almighty for his grace, honor and glory who has given His uncountable blessing,

loves, opportunity and strength given to the writer during her study and in

completing this thesis which entitled: The Effect of Team Pair Solo Strategy on

Students’ Achievement in Reading Narrative Text. This thesis is aimed to fulfill

one of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan (S-1) of the English

Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan

(UNIMED).

In completing this thesis, the writer realized that she faced some problems

and she had received the academic guidance, suggestions, and comments and got

a lot of assistance and moral support from many people. Therefore, the writer

would like to express her gratitude and special thanks to:

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State

University of Medan.

 Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages

and Arts, State University of Medan.

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

Dra. Meisuri, MA., the Secretary of English Department, Faculty of Languagaes and Arts, State University of Medan.

 Drs. Willem Saragih, M.Pd., her Thesis Consultant

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 Dr. Anni Holila Pulungan, M. Hum, Drs. Muhammad Natsir,

M.Hum and Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan, M.Hum, her Examiners, and for All the Lecturers of English Department.

 Mam Euis, the administration staff of English Department

 Drs. Sofyan, M.Pd., the Headmaster of SMP Negeri 3 Binjai, who

given his permission and opportunities in allowing the writer to do

observation and to collect data.

 Yenni Fitri, S.Pd., the English teacher of SMP Negeri 3 Binjai, who

given her assistance, guidance, suggestions and comments in the

process of completing this thesis. And all the teachers and students at

the school for the good cooperation.

 L. Hutabarat and D. Tampubolon, S.Th, her beloved parents for

never giving up on her and for their tireless pray and love. The

writer’s special gratitude also goes to her lovely brothers and sister,

Abed Nego Hutabarat, Christien Sri Dwi Jayanti Hutabarat, Amd and Anggi Josafat Hutabarat and all her families for their endless love, pray, inspiration, motivation, mental and everything that they

have given to the writer.

 (D’Clique Five), Detha Sari Anjani Sinulingga. S.Pd, Fitri Agnes

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2010, her great class for the love and togetherness throughout four years.

 (LTD), Eka Lasmarito Simamora, S.Pd and Kartika Sari Dewi

Sinaga, S.Pd for their tireless pray, support and motivation also for her friends in PPLT SMPN 1 Selesai for many experiencies and

togetherness.

 Keping, Boreg and Siska for their helping, praying, motivating, and

supporting.

 And the last, finally a million thanks to all those who have given

endless contribution in the process of completing this thesis.

The writer realizes that this thesis still has the paucity, she conveniently

welcomes any suggestions, comments, critics, and advices that will improve the

quality of this thesis. She hopes that this thesis would be useful for those who are

read and interested in the field of this study.

Medan, Januari 2015 The writer,

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ABSTRACT

Hutabarat, Desy Fortin Sopindaya. 2103121010. The Effect of Team Pair Solo

Strategy On Students’ Achievement in Reading Narrative Text. A Thesis.

Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan. 2014.

This study deals with the effect of team pair solo strategy on students’ achievement in reading narrative text. The objective of the study is to find out whether Team Pair Solo Strategy significantly affects the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. It was an experimental research. The subject of the study was students of Grade VIII IN SMP Negeri 3 Binjai. The sample was divided into two groups. The Experimental group was taught by applying Team Pair Solo Strategy, while the control group was taught by applying conventional method. To obtain the reliability of the test, the writer applied Kuder Richardson 21 formula. The result of the reliability was 0.21. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The analysis showed that t-observed value 4,33 > t-table value 2.00 at α = 0.05 with df = 58. The findings indicate that using Team Pair Solo Strategy significantly affected the students’ reading comprehension.

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LIST OF TABLES

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Table 1.1 Students score in Reading Comprehension in Narrative Test………..3

Table 3.1 Experimental Research Design………...29

Table 3.2 Scenario of Treatment for Experimental Group……….…34

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LIST OF APPENDICES

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Appendix A The Score of Pre-Test and Post-Test by the Students of

Experimental Group ... 47

Appendix B The Score of Pre-Test and Post-Test by the Students of

Control Group ... 48

Appendix C The Reliability of the Test ... 49 Appendix D The Calculation of t-test for Experimental and

Appendix E Table of Distribution t ... 55 Appendix F Sample of Lesson Plan ... 56 Appendix G Reading Comprehension Test for Experimental and

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of the Study

In studying English, there are four skills that will be learned that are

speaking, listening, writing and reading. The four elements are mutually

supportive and have a relationship each other. The ability to read is one of the

most important thing in learning English because by reading we will be able to

improve science, will obtain the latest information from the kit discourse

punctuation and it can develop our memory, comprehension, and more knowledge

for example when the people study textbook, article, short story, and even a novel.

This statement is related to Ellen (2008) state that Reading is very important part

of our lives. Reading is an activity with a purpose. Someone may read for many

reasons, for instance to gain information and exiting knowledge, or in order to

critique a writer’s ideas or writing style.

Reading is a process of recognition or interpretation of written materials

and it ideals with the language form. Sheng (2001) stated that reading is a process

of communication from the writer to the reader. It involves letters, words, phrases,

and clauses. Through reading, people can increase our experience, develop new

concept, solve our problem, study how the words are used, how to implement the

grammatical rules, and get many knowledge. And according to Patel and Jain

(2008:113), reading is an active process which consist of recognition and

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comprehension skill, an important skill activity in life with which one can update

his/her knowledge, and important tool for academic success.

One of the pillars of the act of reading is reading comprehension. Reading

comprehension is not just reading with a loud voice but reading is established to

understand the meaning of word, sentences, and paragraph sense relationship

among ideas as it is. If a student just reads loudly but can’t understand the content

of the text, it means that he fails in comprehending passage (Simanjuntak 1998).

It is true since, based on the researcher’s observation most of the students

in SMP Negeri 3 Binjai were not able to read and comprehend the text, although

the English teacher had already taught material to students. In addition, the

researcher also looked at the English teacher teaching by lecture, and then asked

the students to read text individually and answer the questions, although the

students do not know what they have read. These activities do not give any

opportunities to improve students’ knowledge. It also cannot give more

contribution to students in understanding reading comprehension. In this case,

most students still find difficulties to comprehend a reading text. As consequences,

learning reading comprehension make them bored.

According to the Educational Unit-Oriented Curriculum (Kurikulum

Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan: KTSP), there are many kinds of text that should be

learned by the students of Junior High School such as, narrative, report, recount,

procedure, explanation, and so forth. Based on the KTSP, narrative text is one of

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is a suitable genre to tell the activity in the past which has functions to amuse the

reader and frequently gives moral lesson (Pardiono, 2007:94).

In fact, based on the writer observation in the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 3

Binjai, the writer found the data of reading comprehension in narrative test from

the first semester in academic year 2013/2014 from the English teacher. She said

that many students could not pass the Minimal Completeness Criterion

(KriteriaKetuntasan Minimal) applied in the school, which is 73 in English

subject. The data can be seen as follows:

Table 1.1 Students score in reading comprehension in narrative test

Class Score Students

have score under the minimal completeness criterion. It can be concluded that the

students’ achievement in reading comprehension in narrative test is still low.

In addition, based on the writer experience in Integrated Teaching Practice

Program (PPL) in 2013 in SMP Negeri 1 Selesai, the writer faced the same

condition. The writer found that there are many factors that make students have

problem in learning reading comprehension skill. The students are lack of ideas,

vocabulary, and grammar.

Based on that problem, in teaching learning process we see that most of the

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problems above, the teachers must have a method or technique to help the students

to improve their reading comprehension. In this study, the writer used Team Pair

Solo strategy as a teaching method. This method has used in the other school, such

as; in MTs Al-jihad by Iqbal, Faisal Rambe and in SMP N 3 Taman by Wenny

WidiAstuti, and its strategy is succeed; this method could improve students’

reading comprehension. Therefore, the writer interests to conduct a research about

“The Effect of Team Pair Solo Strategy on Students Achievement in Reading

Narrative Text”. The writer hopes this study will be useful for teacher as guidance

in using strategy which gives an effect on students reading narrative text in SMP

Negeri 3 Binjai. And also it will be useful as a contribution for many people, and

students to enrich their knowledge.

Team Pair Solo strategy is one strategy that can be used by the teacher in

teaching reading comprehension. Kagan (1989) states that Team Pair Solo strategy

is a cooperative method, for mixed ability grouping involving with team, then

pairs and finally individually. Students work together in a group to solve a

problem. Next they work with a partner to solve a problem, and finally they work

by themselves to solve a problem. It is designed to motivate students to tackle and

succeed at problems which initially are beyond their ability. In this strategy

students help each other because what may be one students’ weakness is another

students’ strength. It is good methods which can make students interact actively in

the class, especially in reading lesson because it can stimulate students to think

and changed their thinking.Based on the background above, the writer hopes that

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B. The Problem of the Study

In conducting research, the problem must be clearly stated in order that the

objective of the study and the method used can be meaningfully determined. As

related do the background of the study the problems of this study is formulated as

follows: “Is there any significant effect of using team pair solo strategy on

students’ achievement in reading narrative text in SMP Negeri 3 Binjai?”

C. The Scope of the Study

Team Pair Solo is strategies of reading comprehension that can be applied to

increase English teaching process. To minimize the wide area, this study only

focuses the application of Team Pair Solo Strategy on students’ achievement in

literal and inferential level o reading comprehension in narrative text grade eighth.

D. The Objective of the Study

In line with the research problems formulated on the previous section, this

study intends to find out the significant effect of team pair solo strategy on

students’ achievement in reading comprehension. It means that using team pair

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E. The Significance of the Study

The results of this study are expected to be useful for:

1. English teacher, in theoretically to know how well the ability of

students is in reading comprehension by using team pair solo strategy.

Practically, to give inspiration for teachers to apply Team Pair Solo in

their teaching especially in teaching reading narrative.

2. Student, this result will give input to improve their ability in mastering

reading and expected to be success in increasing their narrative reading

achievement.

3. Education institution, as an improvement of science related to the

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