U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 6, No 6 (2017): U-JET

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

Citra Mustika Zulya (Lampung University)
Ari Nurweni (Lampung University)
Gede Eka Putrawan (Lampung University)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Jul 2017

Abstract

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 p0,05. 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 p0.05. 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

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...