THE EFFECT OF QUESTION GENERATION ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT SMP PAWYATAN DAHA 1 KEDIRI ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 / 2017
Author (Penulis)
YODHA AFANDI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
13.1.01.08.0087
Abstract
Reading skill is receptive skills gives the first priority in the printed information is very dominant
nowdays. By reading student can get new knowledge and information that they need. But in the fact
student difficult to understand the text that they read. They difficult to find the information from the text
and in teaching process the teacher didn’t use appropiate strategy. In this research, the researcher wants
to introduce the strategy named Question Generation as reading comprehension strategy to make their
reading comprehension can be better. The aim of this research are to know student reading
comprehension before and after taught using Question Generation and find out the effect of question
generation on student readng comprehension.
In this research is used quantitative approach with pre-experimental in the form of pre-test, treatment
and post-test design and the subject of the research is the second grade students of SMP Payatan Daha
1 Kediri that taken only one class consist of 34 students. The research was done in three meetings and
technique of analyzing the pre-test, and post-test used the T-test counted by SPSS v. 21.
The result of the data analysis mentioned, the writer found the mean of post test (70,44) is higher
that the mean of pre test (57,50). In the report of t-test it show that t-score (10,990) is higher than t-table
in the level of significance 5% (2,034). Thus, Question Generation can influence the students reading
comprehension to the second grade students at SMP Pawyatan Daha 1 Kediri.
Finally, the researcher can conclude that there is a significant effect of Question Generation Strategy
on students reading comprehension, and it can be used in teaching reading cmprehension.