The Impact of Metacognitive strategy: Preview-Question-Read-Summarize-Test (PQRST) to the student’s Reading Comprehension at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri
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GHEA RISMAUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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This paper describes the application one of the technique of Metacognitive Strategy: Preview- Question-Read-Summarize-Test (PQRST) on the students’ reading comprehension. This research was designed to know the students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using PQRST and investigate the impact of Metacognitive Strategy: PQRST to the students’ reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri in academic year 2017/2018. The aimed of this research was triggered by the fact that the sample under the study still faced problem in reading comprehension, especially in identifying main idea, determining synonym, determining antonym and determining explicit information of the text.
This research was conducted by using pre-experimental quantitative design, namely one group pre-test post-test design. The population of this research was the students of the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri. The samples were 39 students consisted of 21 females and 18 males of XI-IPA. The data was collected by three steps; pre-test, treatment and post-test. The data were analyzed using Paired Sample T-test of IBM SPSS Statistic version 23.
The result of this research showed that the mean score of pre-test and post-test was 22,051 with standard deviation 9,981. The result also showed that t-score 13,797 with the significant (2-tailed) score is lower than 0,05. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that there is significant impact of PQRST to the students’ reading comprehension changed positively. The aspects of reading which are increased especially in identifying main idea and determining explicit information.
Based on the result of the research, there was a significant impact of using PQRST on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. It is suggested for the teacher to apply this technique in other genre of the text, and it is better for the teacher to consider the time allocation because this technique need a long time. Then, for other researchers can investigate this technique in the indicator of determining explicit information that the score just have little achievement in the aspect of reading and also apply PQRST in other genre and level of class.
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