The Use of Peer Tutoring Strategy to Increase Students' Reading Skill (An Experimental Study at MTsS Lam Ujong Aceh Besar)

This thesis is entitled “The Use of Peer Tutoring Strategy to Increase Students’ Reading Skill (An Experimental Study at MTsS Lam Ujong Aceh Besar)” which seeks to find out whether or not peer tutoring is affective towards students’ reading ability at the eighth grade students. The problem of this research is the students are less of concentration when learning alone and the students just want to listen to the explanation of the teacher. By doing peer activity, the students whose ability is better can motivate and reinforce his friend. In other words, every student who has a good understanding will be paired with other friends to learn together and motivate each other. Peer tutoring will make student more confident to teach their friend and study together or at least that will elevate the low motivated students into a better stage. The researcher used a quasi experimental research which is part of quantitative research method. By using intact class technique, the researcher took 40 students as sample. It is divided into two groups; the experimental group which was given peer tutoring strategy and the control group which not given peer tutoring treatment. In collecting the data, the researcher used tests as instrument of the research. The tests were pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was given before the treatment and the post-test was given after the treatment. Therefore, the data of this research is tested by using t-test. The respondents of this study are the second grade students in 2018/2019 academic year which consist of 20 students in the classroom. The finding shows that peer tutoring strategy can increase students’ reading ability and this strategy is easy to understand and to makes students more active. Besides, the atmosphere in the classroom is also interesting.

Keywords: Reading, Teaching Reading, Peer Tutoring