ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to know the students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using SQ4R and investigate the impact of SQ4R to the students’ reading comprehension at the tenth-grade of SMKN 2 Kediri in Academic Year 2017/2018. This research is using pre-experimental quantitative design, namely one group pre-test post-test design. The population of the research was 671 students of nine programs at SMKN 2 Kediri in academic year 2017/2018. The sample of the research was 36 students consist of 7 males and 29 females of X-Tourism 1 class. The data analyzing by using SPSS version 23 to know the impact of SQ4R to the students’ reading comprehension.The result of data shows the students’ reading comprehension before being taught by using SQ4R was low by the mean score was 56.25. Then after get the treatment by using SQ4R, the reading ability of students increased by the mean score of post-test was 75.00. And the result showed that t-score -17,078 with the significant (2-tailed) value is lower than 0.05. This research also found that SQ4R was suitable for students’ reading comprehension because can help the students got better comprehend the text. Based on the result of the data, it can be concluded that SQ4R has significant impact on students’ reading comprehension of SMKN 2 Kediri. The researcher suggests to the English teacher to apply SQ4R method by guiding students in reading on many genres and when the teacher apply this method, it’s better to the teacher for management time well because this method need a long time. For other researchers, it is suggested to investigate this method in indicator that the score just little improving such as indicator of identifying main idea and also apply SQ4R in other genre and level of class.
KEY WORDS : Reading Comprehension, SQ4R
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