The Effect of Question Answer Relationship Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension
Daftar Isi:
- Many students at MTsN 9 Kediri get difficulties in comprehending the text, especially students in eighth grade, because they has bad reading habit and the teacher still uses conventional teaching strategy to teach reading comprehension. Teaching reading comprehension can be taught by using Question Answer Relationship (QAR) strategywhich is considered appropriate to increase the students reading comprehension. Therefore, the researcher is interested to know the significant difference between the students taught by using QAR strategy and those taught by using RA strategy on their reading comprehension. This research used quasi experimental research design. This research conducted at MTsN 9 Kediri. Second grade class or 8th grade was chosen as the research sample by researcher based on consideration given by the school. The sample of 8B as control group consist of 38 students and the sample of 8C as experimental group consist of 36 students. The research instrument used to gather the data were pre-test and post-test in multiple choice. The researcher use ANCOVA in SPSS to test the hypothesis. Hypothesis alternative was accepted because the group significant value was 0.000 <0.05. It can be concluded that there is significant difference between the students taught by using QAR strategy and those taught by using RA strategy on their reading comprehension.. In addition, the researcher found that using QAR strategy can thrift the time and students were motivated to read comprehension.