IMPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODELS GROUP INVESTIGATION TYPE FOR INCREASING ABILITY IN READING ARABIC TEXT

(Quasi Experiment Study in XI Class at SMA Islam Al-Musyawarah Lembang)

Abstract

This research was conducted due to the lack of skill in reading Arabic texts in XI IPA and IPS students. The problems are: students were lacking in understanding the principle of Arabic and its vocabulary, in translating Arabic sentences into the appropriate sentences, students were also facing difficulties in deciding punctuation, intonation and stressing in a sentence. With the use of cooperative learning model, type group investigation expected to be an alternative in increasing students’ skill in reading Arabic texts. The methods that is used in this research is quasi experiment with Non-Equivalent control group design which is a research that use one-class experiment and one-class control. The sample that are used in this research are XI IPS class as experiment class and XI IPA class as the control class. After doing learning activity using Cooperative Learning type Group Investigation, there were significant differences in the average in the pretest and posttest result in those two classes. In the experiment class, the average score of pretest is 65.40 and the average score of posttest is 84.13. While in the control class, the average score of pretest is 59.33 and 69.93 for the posttest. While the final hypothesis testing is done on the normalized gain of the two classes. According to the statistics computation, the significant score (2-tailed) is 0.006. Due to 0.006 < a = 0.05, it means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. This shows there were significant differences in learning to read Arabic texts using GI learning model. The GI learning model is effective to be used in learning to read Arabic texts.