Anjarwati, Arbain Dewi (2018) Improving Reading Skill By Using Of Peer Assisted Learning Strategy (PALS) Among The Eighth Graders of SMP Islam Purbolinggo in The Academic Year of 2017 / 2018. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The Purpose of the research is to show that the use of peer assisted learning strategy (PALS) can improve students’ reading skill among the eighth graders of SMP Islam Purbolinggo in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. The problem of this research is that the students have low motivation to learn English especially in reading, they get the difficulties to comprehend the main idea and information from the text, and they also not interested about the learning strategy in the class. Using PALS it makes students more active because they work in pair.The kind of this research is classroom action research (CAR) which is conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Object of this research was the students’reading skill. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, observation, and documentation. This research was conducted with an English teacher of SMP Islam Purbolinggo that was Mrs. Siti Mutiah, S.E.The Result of this research shows that PALS can improve the reading skill among the eighth graders of SMP Islam Purbolinggo. It can be proved by the students’average score from pre test to post test. The average score in pre test was 58.33 and in post test was 61.29 became77.22. It means that the using of PALS in reading especially descriptive text can improve the students’ reading skill.

Keywords:Classroom Action Research (CAR), PeerAssisted Learning Strategy (PALS), and Reading Skill.

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