The Effect of Think Pair and Share Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at Grade X SMA Negeri 2 Rantau Utara

Abstract

The objectives of the research are to how the effect of Think Pair and Share on students’ reading comprehension . Moreover, this reserch designed to sutdy how the Think Pair Share strategy can be implemented in the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Rantau utara. The tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Rantau Utara had problems dealing with reading comprehension. The researcher found that tenth grade has problems in reading, such as catching the main idea, identifying the implicit and explicit information of the text, found the word meaning, and word reference. The researcher found that the teacher taught in class dominated  the students.The subject of the search is the tenth grade , there are 30 students for control class and 30 studnts for experimental class. The rsearcher collected data by test, the researcher analyzed the data using the quantitative data. The conclusion in this research is a significant difference of the effect on students’ reading comprehension between those who were taught using Think Pair and Share and those who were taught using Direct Instruction. It can be proved from the score result of t (9,48) which is higher than t_table (1,697). The students who were taught using Think Pair Share (78,5) had higher score than those who were taught using Direct Instruction ( 56,6). It means that the students who were taught using Thnk Pair Share have better reading comprehension than those who were taught using Direct Instruction. The method of Think Pair Share gives opportunities to improve their reading comprehension.