THE EFFECT OF USING QUESTION, REDUCE, READ AND DISCUSS STRATEGY TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 25 PEKANBARU

This research was conducted based on the problems faced by the students in learning English especially in reading recount text. Based on the fact, the students had problems to comprehend the recount text. The problems were: some of the students got difficulties to find main idea, they were not able to find out the information, they were not able to comprehend the content of the reount text, etc. So, the researcher was interested in carrying out the research about these problems. in this case, the researcher provided Question, Reduce, Read and Discuss Strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension. This strategy could be used to activate background knowledge and benefit students when the reading is difficult. The objectives of the research were to find out the students’ reading comprehension in recount text taught by using Question, Reduce, Read and Discuss strategy, to find out the students’ reading comprehension in recount text taught without using this strategy and to find out whether there is a significant effect of using Question, Reduce, Read and Discuss strategy of the second year at SMPN 25 Pekanbaru. The design of this research was a quasi-experimental design. In collecting the data, the researcher used both pre- and post- test to collect the data of the reading comprehension in recount text of the second year students at state junior high school 25 Pekanaru. In analyzing the data, the researcher used an independent sample t-test. By using SPSS 16.0 and to was compared with ttable considered with df. Finally, based on the analysis of T-tes formula, the research concluded that there is a significant effect of using Question, Reduce, Read and Discuss strategy toward reading comprehension in recount text of the second year students at State Junior High School 25 Pekanbaru, where tobtained = 3.750 was higher than t-table either at 5%=2.00 nor 1%=2.65. It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected