The Advantages and Disadvantages of Group Work
group work method; it gained from the result of test before CAR, there were six students who passed theMinimum Mastery Criterion-Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal
KKM. Then in the result of test after CAR in the cycle 1, there were 30 or 65.21 students in the class who passed the KKM considering their mean score
of the test is 64.34. Next in the result of test after CAR in the cycle 2, there were 37or 80.43 students who passed the KKM in which their mean score of reading
test derived 73.04. 2 related to the observation result showed that the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom.
Indeed, they could cooperate with their group. 3 Related to the interview result, it could be known that the students‘ reading comprehension of descriptive text had
improved and helped the teacher in finding the appropriate strategy in teaching reading descriptive text.
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The second previous study is conducted by Umiyati entitled “The
Effectiveness of Using Small Group Interaction in Teaching Reading Comprehension” Experimental Study at the Seventh Grade of „SMP Sunan
Bonang‟ Tangerang. This is an experimental research. The writer taught two
different classes employing two different teaching techniques. The writer administered a pre-test to know that the classes have relatively the same
background knowledge in the research variable and a post-test to find out the growth of score as the measurement of achievement. The writer used t test to
calculate the data and to test the hypotheses. The result of the calculation from this research is to ≥ t table, it means that the Null Hypothesis Ho is rejected and the
Alternative Hypothesis Ha is accepted. The interpretation of data is the use of
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Wahyuning Pratiwi, Developing Students‟ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text
Through Group Work A Classroom Action Research in the First Year of VIII- 1 Class of MTSN 19 Pinang Kalijati, Jakarta: State Islamic University of Jakarta, 2010.