TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION BY COMBINING WORD SPLASH STRATEGY AND TEAMMATES CONSULT STRATEGY AND TEAMMATES CONSULT STRATEGY AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF SMPN 1 SESENAPADANG.

Abstract

The objective  of this research was to find out an increase in student learning outcomes in reading at eighth grade students of  SMPN 1 Sesenapadang  after applied  combination Word Splash strategy and Teammate Consult strategy. The method that used in this research  was pre-experiment, where there was one class that was given the  pre-test, treatment and post-test. The population in this research was the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Sesenapadang 2018/2019 academic year. The sample used in this research was cluster random sampling technique with the total sample consisted of 30 students. In data collection researchers used a reading material test consisting of 20 multiple choices. The results showed that there were significant differences in the improvement of students' reading skills where the average score was pre test 63.33 and post-test 78. The post-test average score was higher than the pre-test (78 > 63.33). Based on the results of the research, the researchers concludes that the Combining  Word Splash Strategy and  Teammates Consult Strategy showed an increase in teaching reading  comprehension at the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Sesenapadang.