THE USE OF GROUP INVESTIGATION (GI) METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT” (A Classroom Action Research of the Eighth Grade Students of Mts Aswaja Tengaran in the Academic Year 2016/2017)

Mahmuda, Alfida Alfiani (2017) THE USE OF GROUP INVESTIGATION (GI) METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT” (A Classroom Action Research of the Eighth Grade Students of Mts Aswaja Tengaran in the Academic Year 2016/2017). Other thesis, IAIN Salatiga.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research are (1) to find whether the implementation Group Investigation method can improve the students’ reading ability in Descriptive Text of the eighth grade students of MTs AswajaTengaran and ( 2) to find out how far is the use Group Investigation method can improve students’ reading ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of MTs AswajaTengaran. The research method that is used in this research is classroom action research. This classroom action research was conducted at MTs AswajaTengaran. The subjects of this research were 24 students in second grade at MTs AswajaTengaran. The writer used two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data were collected from observation, documentation, and test. The research findings showed: The mean of Pre-test 1 is 53.33, the mean of post- test 1 is 61.6, the mean of pre-test 2 is 68.33 and the mean of post-test 2 is 81.6. The uses of group investigation method significantly improve students ‘reading ability in descriptive text. This was proved from the result of t-test and t-table in cycle 1 (5.59>2.069) and the result of t-test and t-table in cycle 2 (9.32>2.069). It shows that the score of t-test is higher than the score oft- table. Based on the finding of the data above, the writer concludes that using group investigation method increases students’ reading ability in descriptive text.

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