The effect of Think-Pair-Share Strategy and Motivation on Reading Comprehension Achievement of Exposition Text at Grade 8 Students at SMPN 1 Padang

This research was aimed at studying the effect of Think-Pair-Share Strategy and Motivation on Reading Comprehension Achievement of Exposition Text at Grade 8 Students at SMPN 1 Padang. This research was quasi experimental research with factorial design 2x2. The population of this research was the students at grade eight at SMPN 1 Padang in academic year 2012/2013 which consisted of 6 classes (140 students). This research used cluster random sampling to select the sample. The sample was VIIIA students as experimental class and grade VIIIB students as control class. The instruments were applied using reading comprehension test of exposition text test and reading motivation questionnaire. These instruments were tried out to other group which had similar capabilities to both control and experimental class. After the scores subjected to reliability and validity of the test, it is found that the instruments used was reliable and valid. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 17. It used T- test and two way ANOVA.The result shows that (1) the students who are taught through Think-Pair-share (TPS) strategy get significant higher result reading comprehension of exposition text than those who are taught by using Sequential interaction strategy, (2) The students with high reading motivation who are taught by using Thin-Pair- Share (TPS) strategy get significant higher result in reading comprehension of exposition text than those who are taught by using Sequential Interaction, (3) The students with low reading motivation who are taught by using Think-Pair-Share (TPS) strategy get significant higher result in reading comprehension of exposition text than those who are taught by using Sequential Interaction at grade, (4) There is no interaction between both strategy and reading motivation toward students’ reading comprehension of exposition text.