THE EFFECT OF FLIPPED CLASSROOM MODEL TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION (An Experimental Study at the Second-semester of English Department Universitas Pancasakti Tegal)

ULHAQ, NISSA D. 2021. 1617500006: “The Effect of Flipped Classroom Model towards Students’ Reading Comprehension (An Experimental Study at the Second-semester of English Department Universitas Pancasakti Tegal)”. Research Project. Strata 1 Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Pancasakti University Tegal. The first Advisor is Yuvita, M.Pd and the second Advisor is Endang Sulistianingsih, M.Pd. Key Words: Flipped Classroom, Reading Comprehension This study aimed to find out whether the flipped classroom model gives positive effects on students’ reading comprehension at the second-semester students of English Department Universitas Pancasakti Tegal in the academic year 2020/2021. To achieve this, a total of thirty-nine students were randomly assigned to two equal groups, each with 17 students: an experimental group (flipped classroom) and a control group (conventional online classroom). The writer used the reading comprehension test as the pre-test of this study of the two groups. Then, after 4 meetings, at the end of the study, the reading comprehension post-test was employed for the two groups in this study. The effectiveness of flipped classrooms on students' reading comprehension was determined using paired samples and independent samples t-tests. The findings of the paired and independent samples t-tests revealed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' post-tests. On the post-test, the experimental group outperformed the control group by a significant margin (p