Abstract:
This study deals with the effect of teaching TBL on the students’ reading
comprehension. The objective was to find out significant effect of teaching TBL on the
students’ achievement on reading comprehension. The research was conducted by
experimental design. The population of this research was the ten Grade students of
SMA Cerdas Murni Tembung of 2016/2017 academic years. There four parallel classes
with the total number of the students were 123 students. The number of the students
was 60 students as a total sample. It is used quota sampling technique. This sample
was divided into 2 classes, experimental and control classes. Each of the class consisted
of 30 students. The data of this study was collected by administrating a test. It was
reading test. The test was an objective test which consists of 20 items. It was given to
both groups, experimental and control groups.
Based on the data analysis, it was found that that tobserved was higher than ttable
(7.27>2.000). It means that teaching TBL method gave significant effect on students’
achievement in reading comprehension.
