THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION METHOD IN TEACHING READING AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 7 TANJUNGPINANG

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out using the small group discussion method to teach reading effective at the eighth grade students of SMP N 7 Tanjungpinang. The reason of choosing of the topic was caused of the students have difficulties getting the main idea and supporting detail of the text, and it needs a long time to find them. Furthermore, the result was that they get low score achievement in reading English. Therefore, the researcher used small group discussion method to improve the students reading comprehension. The students’ reading achievement before being taught by small group discussion method is generally fair. from the pre-test score of mean (58.75). the students’ reading achievement after discussion is better than before and from the post test score of mean (91.25) using independent sample t test using SPSS version 26, it shows that t (0.05) the values of t table is (2.10092) and t value (7.780). it it known that the t value is higher than t table (7.780 > 2.10092). therefore the alternaive hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.  This research was a non-equivalent (pre-test and post-test) control-group design. The sample of this research was 40 students. To find out the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. The result of this research showed that the use of Small Group Discussion Method has significant and possitive effect in teaching reading comprehension at the eighth grade students of SMP N 7 Tanjungpinang.