THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GI (GROUP INVESTIGATION) TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION AT MTS AL MA’ARIF TULUNGAGUNG

ABSTRACT Widyawati, Yuli. Registered Number Student.2813123167. The Effectiveness of Using Group Investigation (GI) Technique in teaching reading comprehensionat MTs AL Ma’arif Tulungagung Academic Year 2015/2016. Thesis. English Education Program. State Islamic College Institut(IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Erna Iftanti, SS.,M.P.d. Keywords: Effectiveness, Group Investigation (GI) Technique, Reading Comprehension In the process teaching and learning English, students are always faced by English Reading of texts at school. Reading is a process of getting information from written words. The reading skill can be improved by applying appropriate technique in teaching reading. One of the techniques that can be used in teaching reading is Group Investigation (GI) Technique that requires students work together to achieve the goal or the success which has always been desired by them. It will help the students in reading comprehension ability. The problems proposed in this research are: 1) How is students’ reading achievement before being taught by applying Group Investigation?, 2) How is students’ reading achievement after being taught by applying Group Investigation?, 3) Is there any significant different score of the students’ reading achievement before and after being taught by using Group Investigation? Purposes of this research are: 1) To find out students’ reading achievement before being taught by applying Group Investigation. 2) To find out students’ reading achievement after being taught by applying Group Investigation. 3) To find out significant different score of the students’ reading achievement before and after being taught Group Investigation. This research was conducted by using quantitative approach with one group pre and post test design. The research was conducted at MTs AL Ma’arif Tulungagung. There were 46 students as the sample of study. The instrument of this study was test. The data was analyzed by using T-test. The result showed that the student’s score in reading before they are taught using Group Investigation (GI) Technique was 55.43. While the students’score after they are taught using Group Investigation (GI) as a technique was 71.52. The tcount was 8.945 and at the significant level of 0.05 the score of ttable was 1.679. It means that the score of t-test is higher than score of ttable. Thus, it can be conclude that Group Investigation (GI) technique is effective to teach reading for Junior High School, especially at seventh grade