Improving Students Reading Narrative Comprehension Text through WH-Questions TechniqueImproving Students Reading Narrative Comprehension Text through WH-Questions Technique

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti(i) adanyapeningkatan kemampuan pemahaman membaca teks naratif setelah diajar melalui teknik WH-questions dan respon siswa setelah diajar melalui teknik WH-questions,(ii) respon siswa terhadap teknik WH-questions. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian adalah30 siswa pariwisata kelas XI di SMKN 3 Bandar Lampung. Tes membaca dan kuisioner digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Data tes membaca dianalisa menggunakan program SPSS 16. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan signifikan pada kemampuan siswa dalam membaca teks naratif dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.000.05. Hasil lain juga menunjukan bahwa siswa memberikan respon positif terhadap teknik WH-questions. Dapat disarankan bahwa teknik wh-questions dapat membantu siswa dalam meningkatkan kemampuan membaca. The objectives of this research were to investigate whether (i) here was a significant improvement of the students reading narrative textachievementafter the implementation of WHquestions technique,(ii) the students response towards the WH-questions technique. The design was quantitative analysis. The subjects of the research were the 30 secondgrade tourism students of SMKN 3 Bandar Lampung. Reading comprehension tests and questionnaire were used to collect the data. The reading data was analyzed by using SPSS 16 program. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension of narrative texts with the significant level 0.000.05. Furthermore, the students gave positive responses after the implementation of WH-questions technique. This suggests that wh-questions techniquefacilitates students to improve their reading comprehension.Keywords: reading comprehension, WH-Questions, and narrative text