Small Group Discussion Method to Improve Reading Comprehension of Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 6 Semarang in the Academic Year 2021/2022
Keywords:
small group discussion method, reading comprehensionAbstract
The objective of the final project was 1) to find out and analyze the SMP N 6 eighth grade Semarang student’s reading comprehension taught without using the small group for discussion method. 2) to find out and analyze the SMP N 6 eighth grade Semarang student’s reading comprehension taught by using the small group of discussion method, and 3) to find out and analyze any significant difference in the SMP N 6 eighth grade Semarang student’s reading comprehension taught without by using and by using the small group discussion method. The researchers did this research by quantitative data. The sample of the research is the eighth-grade students of SMP N 6 Semarang the researchers enrolled in two classes called an group of experimental and a control group. the instrument of the research that used is the essay test. The mean score of experimental groups is 49.15 for pre-test and 89.25 for post-test. The mean score of control group is 49.09 for pre-test and 71.87 for post-test. Those results were formulated with t-test formula. The test score showed that t-test score is bigger than the t-table score. The t-test is obtained 21,503 for 5% (0.05) alpha level of significance. The percentage of t-table 5% is 2.738. The computation shows that 21,503 > 2.738. Then based on that research result can be concluded that there is a significant difference of the student‘s ability in reading comprehension using Small Group Discussion method of the eight grade students of SMP N 6 Semarang. The researchers would like to make some suggestions for enhancing the quality of teaching and learning by using the Small Group of Discussion technique to improve eighth-grade student’s reading comprehension for the teachers to assist the students in explaining the topic in depth and evaluating the students. For readers to do research using the same strategy for teaching reading comprehension use this final project as a reference.
