• Dino Sugiarto

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• Puji Sumarsono

  Author

Nowadays, many students still assume that English is the most difficult lesson.
Furthermore, most of them assumed that English is a boring lesson. Those factors make the
students unable to master English very well. Moreover, in many cases, reading becomes the most
difficult skill to be mastered. Therefore, this research was conducted in order to make a better
condition of teaching and learning reading narrative texts through the implementation of Think-
Pair-Share model. The basic foundation of this model was to make the students more active in
the teaching-learning process by discussing with their classmates. This research applied
Classroom Action Research. The data were gathered from reading test in the end of every cycle.
It was found that the students’ ability in reading narrative texts improved after the
implementation of Think-Pair-Share model. It could be seen in the improvement of average score
for each test, from 74 in cycle I to 80 in cycle II. In addition, the number of students who passed
the minimum mastery criteria (KKM) also improved, from 25 students to 31 students.

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