THE EFFECT OF GROUP INVESTIGATION ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Group Investigation
technique on students’ reading comprehension of the second grade students of
SMPN 7 Bengkulu. This research was a quasy experimental research. The
population of this research was all the students of the second grade of SMPN 7
Bengkulu. The subjects were 61 students from two classes; the experimental and
control class. The experimental class was treated by applying Group Investigation
technique, while the control class was taught as usual by using traditional method.
The two classes was have simillar ability in English from the scores of mid term
examination. It can be concluded that those classes could be accepted as the
samples of this research. After giving the treatment for three meetings, the post�test was administrated to both classes. From the data of post-test, it was found that
the t-count 1,741 while t-table was 1.671. Thus, t-count was bigger than t-table
(1,741 >1.671). Thus, it shows that there is a significant positive effect of Group
Investigation technique toward the students’ reading comprehension. The students
taught by using Group Investigation achieved higher score than the students
taught by traditional method
Key words: Group Investigation technique, Reading Comprehension