IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT
IN READING REPORT TXT BY USING
THINK PAIR SHARE STRATEGY
A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By:
MUHAMMAD FAISAL SITUMORANG
Registration Number: 209321012
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. All praises be to Allah, the lord of the worlds. Who has given the health and strength to the writer in completing this “Thesis”. May Allah’s peace and blessing be upon His final Prophet and Messenger, Muhammad, his family and his companions.
This Thesis is presented to the English Department of Faculty Languages and Arts, State University of Medan as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of first strata.
Alhamdulillah, the writer has finished this thesis. Absolutely it is not only an effort by her self alone, there are many hands help her. In this occasion, she presents great honor to :
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar, M.Si, the Rector of State University of Medan Dr. Isda Pramuniarti, M.Hum, the Dean of Faculty Languages and Arts. Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English Department and Rika,
S.Pd. M.Hum, The Secretary of English Department.
Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed, The Head of English Educational Study Program.
Drs.Bachtiar, M.Pd, his advisor, who has given his time, support, guidance, kindness, contributions, and patience in correcting and helping him in finishing this thesis.
Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed, Drs. Williem Saragih, Dipl, M.Pd, Dr. I Wayan Dirgeyasa Tengkas, M.Hum, his reviewers for giving advise. All lecturers who have taught him in this English Department, for giving
new knowledge, advices in facing life, and for giving gorgeous study experiences.
Susianto, S.Pd, M.Si, as the principal of SMA Negeri 1 Binjaiand also for others who help him.
All teachers and the students at SMA Negeri 1 Binjai for giving permission and helping the writer to do this research.
Drs. F. Situmorang and Siti Rosmida Nasution, his beloved parents, Ika Situmorang, S.Pd and Monang Situmorang, S.E his sister and his brothers, his beloved one Soraya Grabiella Dinamika and his big family who always supported the writer to be hard working to finish his study in Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
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Last but not least, the researcher resizes that his thesis still has some weakness and mistakes. Thus, he would be grateful to accept any suggestion and connection from anyone for the better writing.
Medan, Januari 2014 The writer,
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CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION ... 1
A. Background of Study ... 1
B. The Problem of Study ... 4
C. The Objective of Study ... 4
D. The Scope of Study ... 4
E. The Significance of Study ... 5
CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 6
A. Theoretical Framework ... 6
1. The Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension ... 6
2. Reading ... 7
3. Reading Comprehension ... 8
4. Level Comprehension... 8
5. The Assessment of Reading Comprehension ... 11
6. Cooperative Learning ... 12
7. Genre of Text ... 12
8. Report Text ... 14
9. Teaching Strategy... 16
10. Think Pair Share Strategy ... 16
11. Application of Think-Pair-Share Strategy ... 17
12. The Advantages of Think Pair Share Strategy... 18
13. The Disadvantages of Think Pair Share Strategy ... 19
B. Conceptual Framework ... 19
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH ... 20
A. Research Design ... 20
B. Location and Subject of The Research... 23
C. The Instrument of Collecting Data ... 23
D. The Procedure of Conducting Action Research ... 23
E. The Technique of Analyzing Data ... 28
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CHAPTERIVDATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 31
A. Data ... 31
1. The Quantitative Data ... 31
2. The Qualitative Data ... 33
B. Data Analysis ... 33
C. ResearchFindings ... 38
D. Discussion... 39
CHAPTER VCONCLUSSION AND SUGGESTION ... 40
A. Conclusion ... 40
B. Suggestion ... 40
REFERENCES ... 42
LIST OF TABLES
Table Page
2.1 The Example of Report Text ... 15
4.1 Students’ Score in Three Tests ... 32
4.2 Students’ Who Passed The Standard Score Of Test ... 34
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Page
3.1. Cyclical Action Research Model Based
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix Page
A. Lesson Plan ... 44
B. Students’ Scores in Three Test ... 65
C. The Improving of Students’ Test Scores in Three Test ... 66
D. Observation Sheet ... 67
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activity is to know enough science concepts and knowing the language especially
comprehending or understanding. In the real word, people who read, read for
intellectual profit or pleasure. The content of whatever they have chosen, to read
will be useful to them or will help them to understand better. For students,
academic goals like ‘passing the course’ provides something like a real world
motivation for reading.
According to Patel and Jain (2008:113),reading is an active process which
consists of recognition and comprehension skill, an important skill activity in life
with which one can update his/her knowledge, and important tool for academic
success. This statement is related to Ellen (2008) state that reading is a very
important part of our lives. We need to take time everyday and read at least 20 to
30 minutes a day. It really helps when you read out aloud. You can hear yourself
and see how you pronounce your words. Your reading will improve if you keep
reading out aloud. You should whatever steps needed to help you learn the Art of
Reading When you read, you will open up a life time of learning. When you read,
you will gain knowledge and understanding of what you have just read. Reading
is a fundamental skill that allows a person to be able to expand knowledge and
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For students, reading is one of the most important skillsto be learnt, because the
success of their study depends on the greater part of their ability to read. If their
reading skill is poor, so they are likely to fail in their study. In the contrary, if they
have a good skill in reading, they will have a better chance in their study.
But, the facts are different Based on researcher’s experience during
conducting Teaching Practice (PPL), most of students were not attracted if the
material that would be learned was comprehend a text. Its caused the technique
used was the same for everyday where students read the text loudly together,
found the difficult words, translated it individually, and answered some question.
It would need much more time to do the process so that students were very bored.
The first reason is, the lack of interest and concentration in reading. When
the students lose their interest and concentration in reading, this is very difficult to
the students to reach high reading achievement.
The second reason is the failure to understand words and sentences in a
text. If the students could not understand words or sentences in texts which they
read, they got difficulties to comprehend the texts. The last reason is, insufficient
knowledge background of the students about the topic of the text. When the
students did not have sufficient background knowledge about the topic of the text
which they read, they got difficulties to comprehend the text. Based on the
explanation above, it seems clear that there are many problems in English reading
teaching learning process. It is English teachers’ task to solve the problems. To
overcome those problems above, there is an urgent need to apply a strategy or
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The appropriate teaching strategy for this reading skill is cooperative
learning strategy because it can help the teacher to guide students in their inability
of reading skill. Besides, by using the cooperative learning strategy, it may attract
students’ attention toward comprehension of reading text and increase their
motivation by actively involving in learning.
In this paper, writer usedThink Pair Share Strategy (TPS), it has been
discovered by some researchers that this strategy has many advantages. This
study chooses and uses TPS strategy to improve the students’ comprehension of
reading comprehension and students’ active involvement in learning process.
Think Pair Share Strategy is a cooperative learning strategy in which
students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned
reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or
answer to a question; (2) pair with a partner and discuss the topic or question and
(3) share ideas with classmates. Discussing an answer with a partner serves to
maximize participation, focus attention and engage students in comprehending the
reading material.
The achievement is found (in Buharsa: 2011) the increasing of students’
achievement in students’ reading comprehension. Based on the result of students’
quizzes, it is found that there was a positive impact of Think Pair Share strategy
toward the increase of students’ ability in answering the quiz based on the reading
text. In other words, the use of Think Pair Share strategy could increasingly help
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Finally, from the explanation above, the writer got interested to do this
research dealing with TPS strategy as a solution of difficulty of reading
comprehension. The title of the research is “Improving Students’ Achievement in
Reading Report Text by Using Think Pair Share Strategy”.
B. The Problem of Study
In the expectation of teaching reading English, it is required that the
students are able to produce text in some genres including report text. However,
the students still find it difficult to comprehend the report text. Therefore, to solve
the problem, think pair share strategy is applied to improve students’ achievement
in reading. The problem of the study is formulated as follows: “Does Think Pair
Share Strategy improve the students’ achievement in reading report text?”
C. The Objective of Study
The objective of study is to investigate whether or not the applying of
Think Pair Share strategyimproves the students’inreading report text.
D. The Scope of Study
There are some genres that are taught in Senior/Junior High School,
namely recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive, report, and exposition. This
study is limited on in reading report text by using Think Pair Share strategy, since
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E. The Significance of Study
The finding of this research is expected to be useful for:
1. English teachers who are expected to improve the English teaching quality
in teaching learning process.
2. The students who are expected to learn more about reading skills and get
motivation in improving their reading skill.
3. The researchers who are supposed to give some data to conduct researches
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data, it was found that the average scores of students in
every test kept improving. It means that there was a significant improvement on
the students’ reading achievement in reading report text by usingThink Pair Share
strategy. It can be seen from the improvement of mean of the students’ score
namely: the mean of orientation test (52,75) increased to the mean of cycle I test
(66,75) and to the cycle test II (80,25). The score continously improved from the
first test to the third test.
B. Suggestion
The result of this research showed that the use of Think Pair Share strategy
improved students’ reading achievement in report text. In relation to conclusion
above, some points are suggested, as follows:
1. The English teacher are suggested to use Think Pair Share strategy as the
effective strategy to stimulate the students’ learning reading spirit and
interest in the reading teaching – learning process.
2. For the students, it is suggested to use Think Pair Share strategy because
this strategy trains the students to share their knowledge to their friends.
Think Pair Share strategy also trains the students to think logically about a
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For the readers who are interest for further study (university students) related to this
research should explore the knowledge to enlarge their understanding about how to
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