Najib Khumaidillah, 2201411094 (2015) DEVELOPING STUDENT’S WORKSHEET OF NARRATIVE TEXT USINGTEAM GAME TOURNAMENT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION (A Case of the Eighth Grade Students of Junior High School IT Insan Cendekia in the Academic Year 2014/ 2015). Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

The narrative text is one of the reading materials taught in eight grade of Junior High School. It becomes the focus of this research because the comprehension of students in reading is low based on the observation done before the preliminary research. Moreover, the narrative text usually has a long form passage in which it will make students get bored easily if it is not taught in interesting way. On the other hand, teacher often just gives them a passage and then continues with its questions taken from the student’s worksheet which is provided by government. This research is aimed at knowing the problem faced by the eighth grade students and the English teacher of SMP IT InsanCendekia in the teaching and learning narrative text using their currents student’s worksheet, and also to know the steps to develop students’ worksheet of narrative text using Team Game Tournament to improve students of the eight grade of Junior High school’s reading comprehension. The Research and Development (RnD) approach was carried out by having preliminary research, need analysis, designing the prototype, expert validation, revision process and describing the research result. The subject of study was the eighth grade students of SMP IT Insan Cendekia. Besides, the questionnaire, interview guideline, observation and test were used as the instrument for collecting the data in this research. According to the interview with the English teacher of SMP IT Insan Cendekia, it can be concluded that the student’s worksheet development was needed to cover the activeness of the students in class and the reading comprehension in narrative text. The steps in developing Student’s Worksheet of Narrative Text Using Team Game Tournament were followed by other steps after the preliminary research that were expert validation, try-out and revision. The result of expert validation for the prototype was very good. Meanwhile, the result of the try-out showed that the students’ score mean improved 10.26 point from 60.12 to 70.38.Therefore, it can be concluded that Student’s Worksheet of Narrative Text Using Team Game Tournament has a good benefit to be used. In addition, the future researchers should conduct better research and development of student’s worksheet to improve Junior High School students’ reading comprehension

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