The Effectiveness of Applying Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) by Using Flashcard as Media in Improving Stusents’ Reading Achievement

Abstract

This research is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using team assisted individualization (TAI) by using Flashcard as media in improving students’ reading achievement and this reseach was applied classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles at X grade students of MAM 1 Medan from january 29th to february 17th 2018. There are two kinds of data: qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were collected by using observation sheet and document. Then, quantitative data were collected by using test (pre-test and post-test). The research finding showed that there were the effectiveness of using team assisted individualization (TAI) by using Flashcard as media in improving students’ reading achievement. The improvement of students’ reading achievement can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of pretest, first post-test and second post test, that is 59.81, 69.81 and 82,03. The

improvement of the classroom activity during teaching and learning proses can

seen from passive into more active when the students got more intrested in

learning because of the strategy that teacher used when teaching