THE IMPLEMENTATION OF P-Q-R-S-TSTRATEGY TO IMPROVESTUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMA NEGERI 7 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah (i) peningkatan pemahaman membaca siswa melalui penerapan strategi PQRST dan (ii) aspek apa yang paling meningkat setelah penerapan strategi tersebut. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 31 siswa di kelas X IPA 4 tahun akademik 2018/2019. Desain penelitian adalah one group pretest
and posttest. Data dalam bentuk skor diambil dari pretest dan posttest, kemudian dianalisis dengan menggunakan Paired Sample t-test. Hasil penerapan strategi P-Q-RS-T dalam pengajaran teks recount menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan yang signifikan pada prestasi membaca pemahaman siswa (p <0,05, p = 0,00). Selain itu, kosakata adalah aspek membaca yang paling meningkat. Secara singkat, dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan strategi P-Q-R-S-T memungkinkan siswa untuk
meningkatkan prestasi membaca mereka.

The research was aimed at knowing whether there was (i) students’ improvement on reading comprehension achievement after they were taught through PQRST strategy and (ii) which aspect of reading that improved the most after the implementation of the strategy. The subjects of this research were 31 students in class X science 4 in the academic year 2018/2019. The research design was one group class pretest and posttest. The data in the form of scores were taken from a pretest and a posttest using reading test, and then they were analyzed by using Paired Sample t-test. The result of the implementation of P-Q-R-S-T strategy in teaching recount text shows that there was a significant improvement on the students’ reading comprehension achievement (p<0.05, p=0.00). In addition, vocabulary is the aspect of reading that improved the most. In brief, it can be concluded that the implementation of P-Q-R-S-T strategy enabled students to improve their reading achievement.

Keywords: reading, reading comprehension, P-Q-R-S-T strategy, improvement