-The Effectiveness of Pairwork and Solowork in Teaching Reading Comprehension to The Second Grade Students of SMK YPT Pringsewu L

by:
Wahyu Abadi

ABSTRACT

This study is conducted to find out how high the reading comprehension of the students taught by using pairwork and that of using solowok and to find out which one is more effective between pairwork and solowork in teaching reading comprehension.

The population of this research is the second grade students of SMK YPT Pringsewu in 2005/2006 academic year. The researcher in this case takes two classes as the sample in which the one class is pairwork and the other class is solowork. In collecting the data the researcher uses pre-test and post-test. The test is in the form of multiple choices. The technique of analyzing the data is by applying descriptive and inferential statistics.

The research findings show that the highest score of pairwork is 35 and the lowest score is 14. In solowork group the highest score is 36 and the lowest score is 12. The mean score of pairwork group is 26.07 and 22.27 for the solowork group. It means that the teaching reading by using pairwork is more effective than that of using solowork. It can also be proved by the value of t-test observed (2.885) which is higher than the value of t-table (1.671) with the degree of freedom 58 and the significant level 5 %. It means that t-observed score is higher than t-table score (2.885>1.671). So, there is a significant difference between the English reading comprehension ability of the students taught using pairwork and that taught using solowork.