SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION FOR THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

This studies involved approximately the impact of Small Group Discussion Strategy (SGDS) on the students’ reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. There had been a few issues determined for the students: 1) they were given problems in comprehending the text, 2) they have problems in deciphering phrases and a few vital components which include predominant idea, normal structure, and particular language features, 148  TAZKIR: Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu-ilmu Sosial dan Keislaman Vol. 06 No. 1 Juni 2020 3) they had been less practice to the gaining knowledge of process. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the SGDS to the students’ reading comprehension. This study turned into experimental studies with pre-test and post-test design. The population turned into all the 10th grade of SMK S Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan., they are 112 students; and taken as sample 2 classes, they are XA as experimental group and XB as control group. To examine the information, the researcher used t-test formula. Based at the calculation of t-test, the researcher determined that t-count = 4.18 and t-table = 1.67591, it means that t-count is higher than t-table (4.18 > 1.67591). So, the researcher should concluded that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It can be concluded that SGDS has big impact to student’s reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan.


INTRODUCTION
Reading comprehension is understanding the text. Reading comprehension is reading a textual content through wondering at the same time as reading and connecting what the reader reads to their thoughts or history expertise in order to recognize or comprehend the textual content (Nurhamidah et al., 2018).
Reading comprehension is making sense of what you read and connecting the thoughts withinside the textual content to what you already know. It additionally means remembering what you've got examine. In conclusion, reading comprehension is interesting through searching a textual content and connecting it to the reader's background knowledge in getting understanding.
Reading comprehension is the capacity of readers to apprehend a printed material or written textual content to getting which means from the writer (Harida, 2017a). Reading is one in every of language capabilities that need to be mastered with the aid of using English learners. It is likewise one of the maximum essential capabilities for the students. Reading enables students to recognize new phrases. For example, if a student reads a book approximately overseas language like English. From that book, if the students locate phrases which they do now no longer recognize the which means, the students will strive to seek the which means by using dictionary.
Reading is the process of getting the information, and comprehension if the soul of reading. When readers did not get any information from what is being Small Group Discussion For The Students'...., Zamila Fitriani Siregar, dkk149 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/tazkir.v6i1.2714 read, it is meaningless, it means that they did not comprehend for what they read (Harida, 2017b). With reading, the readers must get comprehend, must understand the key concepts for what being read. There are many strategies, methods, or techniques that can help the readers to increase their reading comprehension.
Small group discussion is one of the cooperative gaining knowledge of strategies wherein students works in corporations of 3 or four. According to Barker, the usage of small group discussion strategies in teaching, particularly reading comprehension, will allow the scholars to get the which means of a passage with the aid of using getting data from his friends and teacher.
According to Bormann in Rizki, Small Group Discussion (SGD) is something that composed 3 or greater humans running collectively to do, in reality, exact hobby or to attain a not unusual place goal (Rizki, 2017). It means a small institution is a small member of humans, work collectively through interplay whose interdependent courting lets in them to attain a mutual goal. Further, small group discussion is effective in enhancing the students' reading comprehension (Setianingsih & Harahap, 2020). It means the usage of small group discussions in teaching reading comprehension is an appropriate alternative. According to Sagala, group discussion group is more powerful if the group includes 3-four college students, allow students to offer their critiques or thoughts to different college students easily (Sari, 2016). It approaches institution dialogue is a conversation wherein humans communicate to at least one another, sharing thoughts and critiques.
Using various strategies or method to enhance the students' reading comprehension is important. Some methods proved to improve reading comprehension as stated by two findings that Know -Want -Learn is effective to improve the students' reading comprehension (Riswanto et al., 2014;Sagala, 2019). In addition, Think -Pair -Share can also be useful for giving good effect to the students' reading comprehension (Harida et al., 2016). Based on the researchers findings above, it is known that using methods or techniques or strategies in solving the students' reading comprehension is needed, then in this article, it is exploring the effect of Small Group Discussion to students' reading 150  TAZKIR: Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu-ilmu Sosial dan Keislaman Vol. 06 No. 1 Juni 2020 comprehension, as known that SGD is also very useful for guiding the students' reading comprehension.
However, reading skill is problematic think for the vocational senior high school students of SMK Swasta Panca Dharma either in the espect of echievement or intelligence. The English teacher said that the students are difficult to get understanding of the English texts, they got difficult in finding the ideas, and do not know the meaning from what they read. Below the researcher reveals the reason as follows. Firstly, the students do not have many vocabularies in order to get more understanding about the text; secondly, the strategy used do not appropriate to the students' need; thirdly, many students less active in participating in the learning process. From the some problems above, researcher divided into two kinds of problems identified as; general problem and specific problem. The general problem was the students feel reading activity is so bored, the specific problem was they are lack vocabulary; the meaning of word by word in the text is not apropriate with the whole of sentence or paragraph; the teacher never applies the strategy in teaching reading. So, the problem needs solution to get the effect of student learning and improve their grades were below standard.
English teacher should create the better Strategy that can increase students' reading comprehension.
This article is to give the explanation about the effectiveness of using SGD to the students' reading comprehension at for the Vocational Senior High School Students in Padangsidimpuan.

METHOD
This research is in the experimental type in aimed to know the cause effect relationship between one variable or more to other variables. The experimental class is the class that thaugh with using small group discussion strategy as a treatment and the control class is the class that taught with a treatment by convensional teaching. It was done at SMKS Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. The researcher chooses two classes. The sample chosen are XA consist of 26 students and XB consists of 26 students, the total samples are 52 students. To get the data from the students, the researcher collected by giving test, and the procedures of the research done by giving pre-test, treatment and Small Group Discussion For The Students'...., Zamila Fitriani Siregar, dkk151 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/tazkir.v6i1.2714 post-test. Then, to analyze the data, the researcher has used "t" test formula, it is to find out the significances of the students' reading comprehension of the two groups that have divided in to experimental and control class. If t-test is higher than ttable, the researcher can conclude that ha is accepted and ho is rejected. If t-test is lower that ttable the researcher can conclude that ha is rejected and ho is accepted.

Normality and Homogeny of the Test
The normality and homogeny of the test is important to know in order to know whether the class is normal and homogeny be an experimental or control class in this research. In the table below, it is seen the result of testing both test of post-test.

Description of Comparison Score of Pre-Test and Post-Test
The students' score of reading comprehension in experimental and control class after giving the treatment to the control class. The comparison score between pre-test and post-test of experimental class can bee seen in the following table: Based on students' answers in experimental of pre-test and post-test, the researcher has calculated the students' score and most of students both of classes were low in reading. Experimental class consisted of 26 students (XA). The lowest score in pre-test was 35 whereas the highest score was 70 and the lowest score in post-test was 65 whereas the highest score was 95.

Comparison Score of Pre-test and Post Test in Control Class
The comparison score between pre-test and post-test of control class can bee seen in the following table: Small Group Discussion For The Students'...., Zamila Fitriani Siregar, dkk153 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/tazkir.v6i1.2714  Based on students' answers in control class of pre-test and post-test has calculated the students' score and most of students both of classes were low in reading. Control class consisted of 26 students (XB). The lowest score in pre-test was 15 whereas the highest score was 65 and the lowest score in post-test was 40 whereas the highest score was 80.

Comparison between Experimental and Control Class in Post-Test
Based on students' answers in post-test in experimental and control class, the researcher has calculated the students' score and most of students both of classes increased. Experimental classconsisted of 26 students (XA), the lowest score was 65 whereas the highest score was 95. Then, most of students got raising score and their score increased very significant. Control classconsisted of 26 students (XB), the lowest score was 40 whereas the highest score was 80.
Students' score increased too but not significant.
Cause tcount > ttable (4.18>1.67591), it means that hypothesis Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. So, there was the significant effect of using Small Group Discussion Strategy on students' reading comprehension at grade X SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan".

DISCUSSION
Based on the result of this research, the researcher considers that Small Group Discussion Strategy is probably suitable to teach reading comprehension.
The researcher also has proved what had been stated by Umiyati said that Small Group Discussion is effective to teach reading comprehension, simple to apply, enjoy, and it help the studentsare not only able to improve their intellectual skill but also increase their social relationship than whole reading class (Sartini et al., 2018). The theory stated that Small Group Discussion is an appropriate strategy for reading comprehension, and in this research, the researcher found that the mean score of students' reading comprehension before using Small Group Discussion was 45.7 and after using Small Group Discussion was 4.18. It means Small Group Discussion For The Students'...., Zamila Fitriani Siregar, dkk155 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/tazkir.v6i1.2714 there was the effect of using Small Group Discussion Strategy on reading comprehension.
The result above supported the previous research by some researchers. The first is Faradina Primarini Noorhaya Sari (2016); the second is Rizki (2017), and the next is Ningsih (2018) concluded that in their research, they have found that there is the significant effect of small group discussion on students' reading comprehension. The students' perspective on SGD used for their learning is positive, and it gave significant effect on reading comprehension of the students (Annamalai et al., 2015). SGD is really effective for making the students' reading comprehension become better.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher has got the effect of SGD on students' reading comprehension. Fibrina Hanung Suswanti, found that tcount=(70.85 > 51.28). The researcher also found that tcount is higher than ttable where tcount was4.18and ttable was 1.67591(8.03 >1.67591). It can be seen among the researches that the using of Small Group Discussion Strategy gave the effect to students' reading comprehension especially at grade X Students of SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. It means the theory has been proved where the students able to comprehend the reading material.
Based on some findings above, it is understandable that SGD is very helpful and give the good effect of using SGD to students' reading comprehension. Therefore, Small Group Discussion Strategy has given the significant effect to the research that has been done by the researcher or the other researcher who mentioned in related finding and Small Group Discussion Strategy is highly effective to help the English teacher in teaching learning