THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RAPQ TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION

Tika Yekti, Muhammad Sukirlan, Budi Kadaryanto

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan apakah ada perbedaan yang signifikan dari pemahaman membaca dan untuk menemukan aspek dalam membaca yang memiliki peningkatan tertinggi setelah diajar melalui teknik RAPQ. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan dilaksanakan pada kelas VIII A, SMP Kartika Jaya II-2 Bandar Lampung yang berjumlah 30 siswa. Random sampling digunakan untuk memilih kelas dan paired sample t-test digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Alat pengumpulan data adalah tes reading comprehension. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa t-value lebih tinggi dari t-table (15.237 > 2.160). Hasil penelitian menunjukan nilai rata-rata dari pre-test adalah 53,5. Sedangkan nilai rata-rata post-test adalah 72. Vocabulary adalah aspek yang memiliki peningkatan tertinggi (6,67%). Oleh sebab itu dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada peningkatan dari pemahaman membaca siswa setelah diajarkan melalui teknik RAPQ.

The objectives of this study were to find out the significant difference of students reading comprehension and to find out the aspects of reading comprehension that the most improved after being taught by using RAPQ technique. This research was a quantitative study and was conducted to 30 learners in class VIII A of SMP Kartika Jaya II-2 Bandar Lampung. Random sampling was used to select the class and paired sample t-test was used to analyze the data. The instrument was reading comprehension test. The result of the calculation showed that t-value was higher than t-table(15.237 > 2.160). The result showed the mean score of pre-test was 53.5, while the mean score of post-test was 72. Vocabulary was the most improved aspect (6.67%). Therefore, it could be concluded that there was an improvement of students reading comprehension after being taught through RAPQ technique.

Keywords: improving, RAPQ technique, reading comprehension

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