THE EFFECT OF USING PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ,STATE, TEST (PQRST) METHOD TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLBABUSSALAM BOARDING SCHOOLPEKANBARU

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students could not comprehend the meaning of the text in their text book at the school. This problem was caused by some factors. For example, some of the students had difficulties in getting idea from the reading text and had difficulties analyzing the reading text. So, the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. The research was administered at Islamic Senior High School Babussalam Boarding School Pekanbaru. The subject of the research was the first year students of Itate Senior High School Babussakam Boarding School Pekanbaru and the object of the research was the effect of using PQRST Method toward reading comprehension in descriptive text. The design of the research was Quasi- Experimental research. The population of this research was all of the first year students. The total number of population was 106 students. Because the number of population was large, the writer used cluster random sampling by taking two classes for sample; X.1 consisted of 34 students as control class and X.3 consisted of 33 students as experimental class, so the total number of the sample was 67 students. To analyze the data, the writer adopted independent sample t-test formula by using SPSS 16 Software. After analyzing the data, the writer found that there is significant effect of using PQRST Method toward the reading comprehension of the first year students atIslamic Senior High SchoolBabussalam Boarding Schoolwhere to shows 3,101. The significant level of 5% is 2,00 and the significant level of 1% is 2,65. Thus, null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted (Ha) which is shown as 2,002,65