Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension through Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy

Main Authors: Zulya, Citra Mustika, Nurweni, Ari, Putrawan, Gede Eka
Other Authors: Lampung University
Format: Article info application/pdf eJournal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: FKIP UNILA , 2017
Online Access: http://jurnal.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/123/article/view/13453
http://jurnal.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/123/article/view/13453/pdf
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  • Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari apakah ada perbedaan signifikan pada keterampilan pemahaman menbaca siswa sebelum dan setelah penerapan strategi Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) .Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian sebanyak 22 siswa pada kelas satu di MTsN 2 Lampung Selatan. Uji reading rcomprehension digunakan untuk pengambilan data. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan t-test value (Repeated Measure T-test) dengan level signifikansi p<0,05. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara statistik ada perbedaan signifikan pada keterampilan pemahaman membaca siswa dengan level signifikansi 0.05. Hal ini menandakan bahwa strategi Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan pemahaman membaca siswa dalam bahasa Inggris.Kata kunci: pemahaman membaca, strategi Question-Answer Relationship (QAR), peningkatanAbstract. The aim of this research was to find outwhether there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension before and after the implementation of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy at the first grade of MTsN 2 Lampung Selatan. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 22 students of the first grade at MTsN 2 Lampung Selatan. Reading comprehension tests were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using t-test value (Repeated MeasureT-test) in which the significance was determined by p<0.05. The result indicates that there was a statistically significant difference of the students’ reading comprehension achievement with a significant level of 0.05. This suggests that QAR strategy facilitates to improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension. Keywords: reading comprehension, Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy, improvement