THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THLNK-PAIR-SHARE IN TEACHING READINGFOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Name : Meta KeumalaStudent No. : 0706102020006Study Program : English Education Thesis Title : The Implementation of Think-Pair -Share in Teaching Reading for Senior High School Students The aim of this study is to describe some given theories and research findings on the use of Think-Pair-Share in teaching reading skill. Reading plays an important role for the success of language teaching and learning. However, many students get difficulties in understanding English texts, especially in finding the main ideas, references, explicit and implicit information. To solve the problems, teacher should implement the compatible strategy in teaching reading. Think-Pair-Share, one of cooperative learning models, is highly recommended in this study. The method of this study is library research where the writer collects data from many literatures such as books, thesis, journals, articles, or magazines those are related to the teaching reading through Think-Pair-Share. The data findings then classifiably compiled and described in qualitative. This study shows that Think-Pair-Share can make students actively participate in learning process and understand the text easier by sharing ideas with friends. The improvement of the students seen in the classroom situations such as; almost all students give more attention to the teacher explanation, give more response toward the teacher's instruction. more motivated and tend to be more active during the learning process. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that Think Pair Share is effective to be applied in the process of teaching and learning reading skill