IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH SELF-QUESTIONING STRATEGY BY USING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Atikah Muthiah, Ujang Suparman, Muhammad Sukirlan

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meneliti apakah ada perbedaan yang signifikan antara nilai-nilai siswa sebelum dan setelah menerapkan self questioning strategy dan untuk mengetahui respon siswa setelah diajar. Sampel dari penelitian ini adalah siswa SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung kelas X1 yang terdiri dari 33 siswa. Desain penelitian ini adalah pre test post test satu kelompok. Dalam pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan tes membaca dan kuesioner. Dalam penelitian ini, t-test pengukuran berulang digunakan untuk menganalisa data. Pada pre-test, nilai rata-rata siswa adalah 54,12 dan pada post-test menjadi 69,66. Dengan menggunakan t-test, telah ditemukan bahwa t-ratio (19.602) lebih tinggi daripada t-table (2.042), ini membuktikan bahwa ada peningkatan yang signifikan. Berdasarkan hasil kuesioner, ditemukan juga bahwa respons siswa positif terhadap self questioning strategy. Hasilnya menunjukan bahwa self questioning bisa digunakan untuk meningkatkan prestasi membaca siswa dalam teks deskriptif.

 

The objectives of this research are to investigate whether there is significant difference between students’ reading achievement before and after the implementation of self questioning strategy and to find out the students’ response after the implementation. The sample of the research are the students of SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung class X1 consisting of 33 students. The design is one-group pretest posttest. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test and the questionnaire. In this research, the repeated measures t-test is used to analyze the data. In pretest, the mean score is 54.12 and 69.66 in post test. By using t-test, it has been found that t-ratio (19.602) is higher than t-table (2.042), it proves that the increase is significant. Based on the result of questionnaire, it has also been found that there is positive students’ response toward self questioning strategy. The result shows that self questioning can be used to increase the students’ reading achievement of descriptive text.

Keywords: reading comprehension, research, self questioning strategy


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