IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH TASK-BASED LEARNING AT SMPN SECOND GRADE

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa menggunakan teknik Task-Based Learning, dan apa masalah yang dihadapi siswa dalam menggunakan teknik tersebut. Peneliti menggunakan desain pre-test dan post-test dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan dalam kemampuan membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan teknik Task-Based Learning. Data tersebut menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata post-test (68.00) lebih tinggi dibanding nilai rata-rata pre-test (59.17) dengan peningkatan 8.83. Dapat dikatakan bahwa teknik Task-Based Learning meningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa. Masalah yang dihadapi oleh siswa adalah terbatasnya waktu dan masih bingung dalam menggunakan tugas pembuatan daftar dalam teknik Task-Based Learning.The purposes of this research were to determine whether there was an improvement of students reading comprehension through Task-Based Learning technique and what problems were faced by the students in this technique. Researcher used a pre-test and post-test design in this research. The result of the research showed that there was an improvement in students reading comprehension after being taught using Task-Based Learning technique. The result showed that students mean score of post-test (68.00) was higher than mean score of pre-test (59.17) with 8.83 gain score. It can be said that Task-Based Learning technique improved students' reading comprehension. Problems that were faced by the students were time limitation and still had confused of using listing task in Task-Based Learning technique.Keywords: reading comprehension, task-based learning technique, listing task