PENINGKATAN HASIL BELAJAR MEMBACA TEKS TULIS FUNGSIONAL PENDEK BERBENTUK “GREETING CARD” MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TGT DI SMP NEGERI 2 KARANGAN

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Teaching and learning English used “teacher center oriented” method hasn’t encourage students’ motivation to gain the determined achievement yet. The fact shows that the second semester students of class VIII D in the year of    2011/2012SMP Negeri 2 Karangan have found difficulties in learning English especially for basic competence 11.2, “ reading functional text about greeting card”. When conducting assessment on reading comprehension, the average students achievement   is 68,92 from 24 students. The classical mastery learning  rate is 54,17 %. It is still under the Englishlearning minimum criteria (KKM) of the eight grade, namely 70. Therefore, the research is held to overcome the problem through the implementation of Team Game Tournament (TGT) learning method. The learning design is aimed to create “students center” learning activities in order to be able to  provide active, creative, joyful and meaningful learning. The classroon action research is  held in two cycles. Each  consists of 4 steps that are  planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In addition there are 2 meeting in each cycle.So there are two data got, from   cycle 1 and cycle 2. In conclusion, TGT learning model can enhance the students’ average achievement from 71,25 in cycle 1 into 79,33 in cycle 2.The improvement can also be seen in percentage ofclassical mastery learning, 54,17 in pra cycle,  70,83%  in cycle 1 and it becomes  87,50% in cycle 2.