THE EFFECT OF USING PRE-QUESTIONING ON STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Membaca merupakan keterampilan yang rumit untuk dicapai karena siswa menunjukkan kesulitannya dalam pelajaran ini. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui adakah perbedaan yang signifikan pada prestasi pemahaman membaca siswa sebelum dan setelah pemberian pre-questioning dan mengetahui masalah-masalah yang dihadapi siswa dalam pemahaman membaca dan pre-questioning. Populasinya adalah siswa kelas dua SMPN 1 Seputih Banyak. VIII A diplih sebagai kelas penelitian. Penelitian ini menggunakan pre-test dan post-test satu kelompok. T-test pengukuran berulang digunakan untuk menganalisa data. Nilai rata-rata pre-tes 53.52 dan post test 69.15. Jadi, ada peningkatan sebesar 15.64. Hasil t-test menunjukkan t-ratio lebih tinggi daripada t-table (18.485 > 2.042) dengan signifikan level p < 0.05 dan signifikan 2-tailed p=0.000. Disimpulkan bahwa pre questioning mempunyai pengaruh terhadap prestasi pemahaman membaca pada siswa.

Reading is complex skills to achieve since reasonably, students expressed difficulties in this subject. The aims of this research are to find out whether there is significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achevement before and after giving pre-questioning and to investigate the problems are faced by the students in reading comprehension and pre-questioning. The population of this research was the second grade of SMPN 1 Seputih Banyak. VIII A class was chosen as experimental class. The study employed one group pretest and posttest design. In this research, repeated measure t-test was used to analyze the data. In pre test, the mean score is 53.52 and in post test, it becomes 69.15. Thus, there is an increase of 15.64 points. The result of t-test shows that t-ratio is higher than t-table (18.485 > 2.042) with the level of significant is p < 0.05 and significant two tail is p=0.000. It can be said  that pre-questioning technique has effect on students’ reading comprehension achievement.

Keywords: effect, pre questioning, reading comprehension achievement