what is TAI

1. The Effectiveness of Team assisted
Individualization Method to Enhance Students’
Reading Comprehension.
 Name : Santy Dewi Sihotang
 Nim : 1121009
 Advisor :N. Panjaitan

2. Chapter I
Introduction of The Study
Bronze (2011) said reading is not only about how
to pronounce and to know the meaning of words,
but also how the readers comprehend the idea of
the writer in written form.

3. Next
 Pratiwi (2013) stated that teaching reading
is not an easy task. For example, for us in
Indonesia, English is a foreign language.

4. Problems
Harkin (2013) said in learning disabilities
many students lack interest in letter.
 And claim they hate reading and have
other reading problems and they do not
know and do not understand what the text
of the reading.

5. Next
 In addition Slavin (2008) said that in Team
Assisted Individualization method (T-A-I), the
students will be assistant or will guide individual
friend.

6. Why the Researcher Do this Research?
 The researcher definitely realize that reading is
one of the learning ways for students to enrich
her ability and knowledge to teach reading
comprehension.

7. Related Study
 Husnun (2013) said T-A-I method has been
proven to be good implementation in learning
Reading Compression.

8. Next
 From the information above, the researcher is
interested in conducting this study with topic and
title “The Effectiveness T-A-I Method to enhance
Reading Comprehension”.

9. Statement of the Problem
 Statement of the problem of this research is:
 Is there any significant difference in reading
comprehension between those who are taught
using T-A-I method and those who are taught
using conventional method?

10. Scope and Limitation
 The researcher will limit this study on grade XI
of Adventist Senior High School Darma Putra,
Bekasi. They will be divided into groups, where
the researcher will use T-A-I method to enhance
students’ Reading comprehension.

11. The Hypothesis
 This study uses of the following hypothesis :
 Ho: There is no significant difference in reading
comprehension between students who are taught
using in T-A-I method and students who are
taught using conventional method to enhance
students’ Reading comprehension.
 Ha: There is significant difference in Reading
comprehension between students who are taught
using in T-A-I method and students who are
taught using conventional method to enhance
students’ Reading comprehension.

12. Significance of The Study
 The writer hopes the result of the study is expected to help
the followings:
 Teachers : become skillful teachers in teaching reading
comprehension through cooperative learning in T-A-I
method.
 Students: This research is expected to help the students in
learning reading comprehension. It is also expected to give
more motivation to learn English, to give assumption that
reading english is interesting, and to reborn their self
confidence so that they can improve their reading
comprehension.

13. Chapter II
Review of Related Literature
Slavin (1990) stated Team Assisted
Individualization provides for equal opportunity for
success because the students are placed according
to their level of prior knowledge and work at their
level of achievement.

14. Components of T-A-I Method
 Team
 Placement test
 Students creative
 Team study
 Team score and recognition
 Teaching group
 Fact test
 Whole class

15. Reading Comprehension
 Hornby in Hartono (2008) stated that reading is a
complex activity that involves both perception and
thought.
 Nuriadi (2008) stated that reading comprehension is a
complex and complicated process.

16. Conceptual Framework
Sample Grade XI IPA
Experimental
Group
Grade XI IPS
Control Group
T-A-I
Treatment result
Figure1. Conceptual Framework Design

17. Chapter III
Research Method
 This study will use two groups and will use pre-test and post-test
design, where one group will be given treatment the other group
is not given any treatment. This is done to distinguish the two
classes in improving reading comprehension between the
experimental groups and control groups.
Groups Pre-test Treatment Post-test
Experimental T X T
Control T O T
Table 3.1

18. Population and Sample
 The students from SMAAdvent Darma Putra,
Bekasi, with the total students 60 students.
 The samples that were used in this research are
taken randomly.

19. Instrument of Research
 The instruments of this research is the reading
comprehension test for pre-test and post-test. The pre-
test was designed to measure the ability of the students
in reading comprehension before applying the T-A-I
method.
 The Reading Comprehension test is multiple-choice
question type taken from the TOEIC test with a total
number of 60 questions.

20. Variable
 Independent Variable : It is usually
symbolized by “X”. In this research,
independent variable is the use of Team
Assisted Individualization method.
 Dependent Variable : It is symbolized by
“Y”. Dependent Variable in this research is
the enhancement of students’ Reading
Comprehension.

21. Instrument Research
The instruments of this research are Reading
Comprehension test for pre-test and post-test. The
pre-test was designed to measure the ability of the
students in Reading listening comprehension before
applying the T-A-I technique. The post-test was
designed to see the result of the study after
applying the T-A-I technique. The Reading
Comprehension test is multiple-choice questions
taken from TOEIC test with a total number of 60
questions.

22. Data Gathering and Procedures
 Organizing Teaching Procedures
 Pre-test
 Giving Treatment
 Post-test

23. Giving Treatments
 The researcher will divide the students in groups into 4 or 5 and
each groups have to choose a leader. The task of the leader is to
present the discussion of the group.
 The researcher will give reading text to the students.
 The researcher will ask the students to discuss about the text.
 The researcher will give some instructions to the groups about
what they will do with the reading text.
 The researcher will ask the leader to present the result of the
discussion.
 The researcher ask the students to do the exercise test based on
the reading text by individually
 The students will gather again with their group and discuss about

24. Statistical Treatment Data
 Normalized Gain
 Test of Normality
 Homogenety Test
 Hypothesis Testing

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