The EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT X GRADE IN SMAN 1 WOLOWAE

Abstract

The present study aims at exams the effectiveness of small group discusssion in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text of the tenth -grade students of SMA NEGERI 1 WOLOWAE. Teaching reading comprehension is recommended in Senior High School because reading comprehension is very important. In competence based on curriculum, students are understanding to comprehending the conten of the text.
 The research is carried out through quantitative research with an experimental method because the researcher gives treatment in teaching writing. In conducting the research, the researcher uses one group pre-test-post-test design. The researcher gave pre-test before treatment and post-test after treatment to get the data. In this research, the researcher took twenty students as a sample.
 The result of the study shows that the score of pre-test was 61 while the mean score of post-test was 81.5 and the mean score of differentiate was 20.5. On the other side, it was found that the result of t-score is bigger than t-table (9,71 > 2,11) at the significant level of 0,05. Therefore, based on the hypothesis testing, we can conclude that the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted while the Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected.
 Based on the result, it can be concluded that the using small group discussion as a method is effective to increase students reading comprehension of the students’ of Senior High School, especially for the tenth grade of SMA NEGERI 1 WOLOWAE. Based on this findings, it is suggested, that the teacher should try to apply an interesting method.

The Effectiveness of Small Group Discussion Technique to Improve Students’ English Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text

“…The understanding obtained is an active thinking process of students. According to Usu & Adi, (2021), reading comprehension is a person capability to be capable process, adsorb the significance in the text. Therefore, by improving this capability, one can understand what the researcher expects when they read a text.…”

“…By reading people are required to find ideas in a text, not just for reading aloud. Usu & Adi (2021) state that the main purpose of reading activities not only allow students to understand fictional texts as entertainment because one of the benefits of reading fiction books is to sharpen the brain to explore. The fiction text is like a short story or novel.…”