@misc{eprints32120, month = {Juni}, title = {IMPROVING STUDENTS? READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT THROUGH THINK-PAIR-SHARE TECHNIQUE AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMAN 10 BANDAR LAMPUNG}, author = {1413042009 Arif Alexander Bastian}, address = {FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION }, publisher = {UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG}, year = {2018}, url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/32120/}, abstract = {The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a significant improvement of students? reading comprehension achievement after being taught through Think Pair Share technique. The research was quantitative research which used one group pre test- post test design. The population of this research was the students of SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung academic year 2017/2018. The sample of this research was XI MIA 8 which consisted of 30 students. The research was conducted from January 19th to February 23rd2018. The instrument was reading test. The result of this research showed that there was a significant improvement of students? reading comprehension after being taught through Think Pair Share technique. It could be seen from the result of the test which showed that a significant level of p {\ensuremath{<}} 0.05 (p=.000), in which the students? mean score in pre test was 64.5667 increase to 89.0667 in post test with 24.5000 of gain. The data were analyzed by using t-test in which the significance was determined by p{\ensuremath{<}}0.05. It is found that Think Pair Share technique can improve students? reading comprehension achievement. It seems that Think Pair Share improves the students? reading ability in reading text. Keywords : Think Pair Share technique, reading comprehension, analytical exposition text. } }