Lestari, Jihan (2023) The Students’ Reading Comprehension By Using Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) At Seventh Grade Of SMPN 4 Mesuji In The Academic Year Of 2022/2023. 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 comprehension at seventh grade of SMPN 4 Mesuji in the Academic Year of 2022/2023. 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 type 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 comprehension. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, observation, documentation and field note. This research was conducted for 4 weeks, with 3 meetings each cycle.

The Result of this research shows that PALS can improve the reading comprehension at the seventh graders of SMPN 4 Mesuji. It can be proved by the students‟ average score from pre-test to post test. The average score in pre-test was 62.67 and in post-test was 68.67 became 78.67. It means that the using of PALS in reading especially descriptive text can improve the students‟ reading comprehension of seventh grade at SMPN 4 Mesuji.

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

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