The Effect of Pre-Questioning toward Students Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari i) apakah ada peningkatan pada keterampilan pemahaman membaca siswa setalah diajarkan menggunakan teknik pre-questioning dan ii) persepsi siswa pada teknik ini. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Sasaran penelitian sebanyak 25 siswa pada kelas delapan di MTs Negeri 3 Lampung Selatan. Reading comprehension dan kuesioner digunakan untuk pengambilan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan kemampuan membaca siswa dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.05. Para siswa menunjukkan berbagai persepsi terhadap teknik ini, kebanyakan dari mereka menunjukkan persepsi yang positif. Hal ini menandakan bahwa teknik pre-questioning memberikan kesempatan kepada siswa dalam mengembangkan keterampilan pemahaman membaca dalam bahasa Inggris dengan.

The aims of this study were to find out i) whether there was statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension achievement after the students were taught through pre-questioning technique and ii) the students perception of the technique. This research was quantitative and qualitative research. The subjects of this research were 25 students of the eighth grade in MTs Negeri 3 Lampung Selatan. Reading comprehension tests and questionnaires were used to collect the data. The result showed that there was statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension achievement with the significant level of 0.05. In addition, most of them perceived that pre-questioning technique is a good technique. This suggests that pre-questioning technique facilitates the students to develop English reading comprehension.

Keywords: reading comprehension, pre-questioning, perception