Using Small Group Discussion Technique in Teaching Reading

USING SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
IN TEACHING READING
COMPREHENSION
(A Study At SMAN 1 Sei Rampah)
A proposal
By :
Kiki Chairani Pratiwi
1806010002
FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER

TRAINING
AL-WASHLIYAH MEDAN UNIVERCITY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of study
English is one of the languages that must be learned by all of
students from elementary school to university level. There are four
skills of language : listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Students
have to be able one of them, For example, the students have ability in
reading. In learning reading, there are certain skills that students have
to make a good pronunciation, fluency and comprehend about text.
Reading is very important because every activity in the classroom
always has relationship with reading. According to Sukirah Kustaryo
(1998) “Reading is a process of making sense of written text through
meaningful interpretation in relation to reader’s use of text and
experimental/conceptual background for concept of written language,
story structure, purpose and content of what is read”.
Reading always comes along with comprehension. According

to Texas Reading Initiative (2002) as citied in Yulisa Putri (2013) “the
purpose of reading is comprehension or to get meaning from written
text. Similar to this, L.A Hill (1998:9) as citied in Cut Arni, USM
2012 “Reading Comprehension is an important aspect of reading skill,
it stressed on understanding, recognizing ideas and getting
information with concentrating activities”. Comprehension in reading
becomes important because it makes the readers have understood what
they read. In other words, their reading is not useless. Reading
comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text.
Moreover, In teaching reading teacher should make the students
more active in accordance with the purpose of learning. To make a
student more active and classroom condition come true, the researcher
is suggested to try applying technique in teaching reading, such as
discussion. This technique can make students become more active and
make classroom ambience controlled as appropriate with the purpose
of learning. Discussion technique can collaborated with small group
method to support children as readers and thinkers.
According Kenz and Greg (2000:4) Small group is a small

member of human, work together through interaction whose
interdependent relationship allows them to achieve a mutual goal. The
students can work together in solving their problems or they can
answer the question from the teacher”. Sagala (2008: 20) says that
group discussion is more effective if the group consisted of 3-4
students; enable students to give their opinions or ideas to other
students easily. In a group, the students are free to talk and to discuss
the solution to answer the questions because they do not accomplish
their tasks individually.
Small groups that will help children to: a) read with

engagement and enthusiasm, b) read strategically, c) engage in
meaningful, invigorating conversations about books, d) read
fluently and with expression, e) read increasingly more
challenging text. Serravallo (2010: 3)
Simillar researcher conducted by Maghfuroh. The student of

Language And Art Faculty State Uneversity investigated
implementation of small group discussion to improve the students’
reading skill. The result showed that the student readig skill can
improve by implementing small group activities.
Izabel Sliman at New England University investigated the effect of

small group in teaching class. He said that, it was also provide
opportunity for cooperative and collaborative learning for understand
reading, exploring, and solving problems or developing higher order
cognitive skill. The result showed that small group discussion can help
student in comprehending reading.
Kaspin at Semarang institute investigated implementation of small

group discussion method in fiqh course. The result showed that, there
was positive effect of the senior high school students in reading
performance for self-assessment requirement in small group
technique.
Besides, they had similar research with the researcher. Therefore,

the researcher would like to conducted the research that is different
from the researcher mention before.
But in fact, best on the result of primary study conducted by the

writer in SMAN 1 Sei Rampah, there is several faced by student, Most
of the students Senior high school which has still confused to
comprehend an English text. This condition caused several problems
such as when the students just learn about English text, they are only
given the text based on the text provided in the book. Then, they are
asked to analyse and comprehend the text itself. Then, the method was
applied by the teacher rather less interest, because when the teacher
teach English text she still using the teacher center method. So, it
makes the students bored and less attention when the teacher’s explain
the material.
Based on the explanations above, The researcher interests to

conduct research by the title Using Small Group Discussion
Technique In Teaching Reading Comprehension a study at SMAN 1
Sei Rampah.
B. Research Questions
Based on the explanation above the researcher formulates two
research problems in this study as follow:
1. How are the student's response toward Small Group Discussion
Technique in teaching reading comprehension?
2. What impact does Small Group Discussion have on students’
reading comprehension learning?
C. The aim of study

The researcher states the aim of study as follows:
1. To know the student's response toward Small Group Discussion
Technique in teaching reading comprehension
2. To know the impact Small Group Discussion have on students’
reading comprehension learning?
D. The significance of study

The significance of study can be drawn as follows:
For students :
1. Using Small Group Discussion Technique can help students in
learning reading
2. Using Small Group Discussion Technique can develop students
ability to solve their problem in reading
For teachers :
1. Provide an alternative method of learning to improve student
achievement.
2. Maximize the performance of teachers in order to improve quality
in learning English.
For researchers :
This study would be a reference in the development of service
system especially in reading comprehension

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USING SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER

Reading always comes along with comprehension. According

According Kenz and Greg (2000:4) Small group is a small

Small groups that will help children to: a) read with

Simillar researcher conducted by Maghfuroh. The student of

Izabel Sliman at New England University investigated the effect of

Kaspin at Semarang institute investigated implementation of small

Besides, they had similar research with the researcher. Therefore,

But in fact, best on the result of primary study conducted by the

Based on the explanations above, The researcher interests to

C. The aim of study

D. The significance of study

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