FIOLANANDA, FINI and Subroto, Gatot and Nopita, Dewi (2025) THE INFLUENCE OF SMALL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION METHOD ON READING COMPREHENSION OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 11 TANJUNGPINANG. S1 thesis, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji.

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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Small Focus Group Discussion (SFGD) approach on eighth-grade students understanding of descriptive texts. The subjects in this study were 30 eighth grade students. The sample consisted of a single class comprising 30 students. Data were obtained through the administration of pre-tests and post-tests to assess students' performance before and after the treatment. This research employed a pre-experimental design, specifically the one-group pretest-posttest model. According to the normality test results presented in Table 4.5, the Shapiro-Wilk test yielded a significant value of 0.053 for the pre-test data, which indicates that 0.053 > 0.05. This suggests that the pre-test data follows a normal distribution. The post-test data showed a value of 0.057, which means 0.057 > 0.05, thus confirming that the post-test data is also normally distributed. Based on the paired sample t-test, the significance level (Sig. 2-tailed) of 0.000, which indicates that the null hypothesis (H₀) is rejected, and the alternative hypothesis (Hₐ) is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that the SFGD method has a significant effect on the descriptive text comprehension of eighth-grade students at SMPN 11 Tanjungpinang. This SFGD method enables students to help one another, foster a spirit of learning and exploration, explain the meaning of words or sentences, and collaborate to build understanding.

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