The Effective Use of Small Group Discussions in Teaching Reading Comprehension of English Texts

Nasuha Daema, Burhanuddin Yasin, Chairina Nasir

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Reading comprehension is one of the necessary skills for students to understand the meaning of words and what they have read. The researcher found that most eleventh- grade students at SMA Keberbakatan Olahraga Negeri Banda Aceh had trouble in identifying theme messages and supporting details, summarizing with evidence, making inferences, and interpreting vocabulary aspects about the text based on preliminary research. Therefore, the researcher used small group discussions to increase students' reading comprehension skills. This study aimed to conduct a small group discussion to help the eleventh-grade students at SMA Keberbakatan Olahraga Negeri Banda Aceh improve their reading comprehension using small group discussions. Especially, to find out if small group discussion significantly improves the reading comprehension aspect of identifying theme or the message and supporting details, summarizing with evidence, making inferences, and interpreting vocabulary. This study used a quantitative pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample in this research was 20 students using purposive sampling. The researcher used essay questions as an instrument to collect data for the pre-test and post-test. The findings of this study showed that using small group discussions could improve students' reading comprehension. It could be seen from the average mean of post-test (63.1) and pre-test (42.0). It found that using small group discussions enhanced student progress in reading comprehension.

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English Text; Reading Comprehension; Small Group Discussion

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