Author (Penulis)

JENYCHA FRESY RYANDANI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

13.1.01.08.0117

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is not an easy process because it involves the work, eye and brain almost to get information or message from the text. It deals with the complex ways in learning english for understanding written texts. Then, reading techniques can help students maximize their comprehension and identify relevant and non-relevant information. In reading, there is reading techniques to facilitate comprehension and to make their reading more effective by using SQ4R. The aim of this research are to know the effect of SQ4R before and after being taught using SQ4R technique, and the last to find out any effect of SQ4R on students’ reading comprehension at the second grade of SMPN 8 Kediri in Academic Year 2016/2017. This research approach was quantitative research and the research method was pre experimental design, namely the one-group pre-test post-test design. The population of the research is 385 students of SMPN 8 Kediri in academic year 2016/2017. The sample of the research was class VIII-I consisting of 34 students. This research was held in four meetings involved pre-test, first treatment, second treatment, and post-test. The researcher used pre experiment design as the instrument to collect the data. The research was carried out from 8th May 2017 up to 14th May 2017. After collecting the data, the next step was analyzing them by using SPSS version 21 to know the effect of SQ4R on students’ reading comprehension. Based on the data, the students’ reading comprehension ability before being taught by using SQ4R is lack motivation and less in vocabulary. Then, after they given treatment their reading comprehension increased. It was proven by the mean after being taught using SQ4R (80.94) was higher than the mean score before being taught using SQ4R (69.06). The result reports that the t-test was higher than t-table (2.733 > 2.035) it means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. From the finding above, it can be concluded that SQ4R technique has significant effect on students’ reading comprehension. The researcher suggest to the English teacher should teach the students using SQ4R because it was suitable technique which makes the students more easy to comprehend the text. KEYWORDS : SQ4R Technique, reading comprehension.

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PUBLISHED

2017-08-15

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

Vol. 01 No. 03 Tahun 2017

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