USING COOPERATIVE DISCUSSION QUESTIONING (COOP-DIS-Q) STRATEGY TOWARD NARRATIVE READING TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA AL-FATAH PALEMBANG (Skripsi)

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang who are taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy and those who are not, and to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement before and after the treatments on students’ narrative reading comprehension achievement taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy at the tenth grade of MA Al-Fatah Palembang. This study used quasi-experimental design using non equivalent pretest-posttest design. The population of the study was all the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang. The sample of the study was taken by using convenience sampling. The total number of the sample was 70 students, 35 students belonged to experimental group and 35 students belonged to control group. In collecting data, the researcher used test. The test was given twice to experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hypotheses, the data pretest and posttest of the experimental and control groups were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS 20 program. The finding showed that the p-output (sig.(2-tailed)) was 0.004 lower than 0.05 and the t-value 2.990 was higher than t-table 1.667. And than p-output from paired sample t-test was 0.000 lower than 0.05 with df=34 (1.690) and the t-value 11.109. therefore it could be stated that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that narrative reading comprehension by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy had a significant improvement on the students’ reading comprehension achievement