TheEffect of Think-Pair-Share (TPS) on Reading Comprehension of College Students.

ABSTRAK Aco Nasir, 2017. TheEffect of Think-Pair-Share (TPS) on Reading Comprehension of College Students. Thesis. Graduate Program in English Language Teaching. UniversitasNegeri Malang. Advisors (I) Prof. H. Gunadi Harry Sulistyo, M.A., (II) Dr. Dra. Hj. Emalia Iragiliati, M.Pd. This study aimsat investigating the effect of the TPS strategyon students’ reading comprehension of college students. The research employed a quasi-experimental design. The experimental class was taught by using the TPS strategyand the non-experimental class by translation and reading aloud. The subjectwas the 155 second semester studentsof EnglishLanguage teaching Department, Islamic College of Parepare. The sample was randomly selected to be one of the classes into the experimental group and the other one into the control group. Since the statistical assumption were not fulfilled in this study therefore, the data were analyzed by utilizing nonparametric testing: Mann–Whitney U and Kruskall-Wallis.Themean score of the students’ reading comprehension achievement in the end of the study was 79.63in the experimental group while the mean score of the students’ achievement in control group was 56.76 and the p-value was .000, meaning was smaller than level of significance .05 (sig .000 < .05).The finding showed that the TPSstatistically impacted students’ reading comprehension compared to one taught using the translation and reading aloud Keywords: effect, TPS, reading comprehensio