The Effect of Think Aloud Strategy on Students’ Reading Skill at The Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Sawa

Abstract

In order to determine whether the think-aloud approach had a substantial impact on the reading performance of SMA Negeri 1 Sawa pupils, the researchers undertook this study. Class XI IPA 1 including 22 students served as the sample for this research, whereas Class XI SMA Negeri 1 Sawa comprising 60 students served as the subjects. The researchers in this study used a pilot research strategy. Participants in this research were asked to fill out a pretest, a posttest, and a treatment test. When analysing the data, the researcher relied on descriptive statistics. The researcher used SPSS version 25 for data analysis. An average of 56.63 points was recorded in the pre-test and 76.86 points in the post-test, according to the study's findings. This means that, on average, students performed better on the test than would have been expected. Compared to ttable = 1.721, ttest = 10.042 is greater, according to the findings of the hypothesis testing. Therefore, the significance level is less than 0.05, and the probability value is sig two-sided 0.000. Thus, we accept H1 and reject H0. This proves that the think-aloud method significantly improves SMA Negri 1 Sawa pupils' reading scores.