Author (Penulis)

Aris Pidianto
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0057

Abstract

ABSTRACT ARIS PIDIANTO. 2016. The Effectiveness of PQ4R Method to the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension of SMP MUHAMMADIYAH Kediri In the Academic Year 2016/2017. Skripsi, English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri 2016/2017. Reading is considered as the most important skill because reading provides interesting information, good model for writing, and opportunities to study language components. The students get difficulty to understanding reading material exactly in the meaning of the text, identify general information, determine main idea and find implicit and explicit information. One of media applied to solve difficulties is PQ4R Method. The research question is: Is the use of PQ4R method effective to the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension of SMP MUHAMMADIYAH Kediri? The approach applied in this research was quantitative approach, and the technique used is one group pre-test and post-test design. This research was held in SMP MUHAMMADIYAH KEDIRI. The population of this research is 150 students, and the researcher takes one class as the sample consisting of 30 students, 12 females and 18 males. The instrument used to get data was test. Pre-test and post-test was applied and then analyzed using t-test formula. The result of research shows that there is very significant effect of using PQ4R Method in teaching reading comprehension, because t-score is higher than t-table value either at level of significant of 5% or 1%. The t-score is 8.00 at degree of freedom 29 and the t-table at level significance 1% is 2.045. The t table of at level significance 5% is 2.756. It can be concluded that PQ4R Method is effective to be used in teaching reading especially in the eighth grade students of SMP MUHAMMADIYAH Kediri in academic year 2015/2016. Keyword: PQ4R Method, Reading Comprehension

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-13

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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