IMPROVING STUDENTS` READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PQRST TECHNIQUE OF EIGHT GRADERS AT MTs NEGERI JAMBEWANGI Academic year 2015/2016

ABSTRACT Andina. Ikfi Dwi. Registered Number Students. 2813123080. 2016. Improving Students` Reading Comprehension Skill In Narrative Text Through PQRST Technique of Eight Graders At MTs Negeri Jambewangi Academic Year 2015/2016. Thesis. English Education Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Islamic Institute Tulungagung (IAIN). Advisor Nanik Sri Rahayu M.Pd. Keywords: improving, reading comprehension, narative text, PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) Technique Reading is a process of perceiving a written text in order to understand its contents. Reading is very important to people especially for students. In teaching reading there are many technique can be used in teaching reading. The eight grades students of MTs N Jambewangi face some problems in reading especially in narrative text, Most of them found difficulties in comprehending the content of the text, especially narrative text. Therefore, the researcher uses PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) technique to solve the problems. By using this technique, the students are expected to be interested in learning reading narrative text and active in the class. As a result, their reading comprehension ability can improve well. The formulation of the study problem is how the modified of PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) technique can improve the ability in reading comprehension Narrative text at the eight grade students of MTs Negeri Jambewangi Academic Year 2015/2016.? And then the purpose of the study is to know whether students ability of a reading comprehension narrative text by using PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) technique in teaching and learning process at the Eight grade students of MTs Negeri Jambewangi. Research Method: 1) the research design in this study was classroom action research model from Kemmis and Taggart especially collaborative action research design, 2) the subjects of this study was eight grades students of MTs Negeri Jambewangi, and the setting of this study was at MTs Negeri Jambewangi, 3) the research was conduct in two cycles, cycle one use three meeting and cycle two consist of two meeting,the research procedure of every cycle consisted of four steps which were planning, implementing, observing and reflecting, 4) the criteria of success of this study is 75% of the students were able to answer reading comprehension test in the narrative text with score ≥ 75 (equal or above KKM score) which were known using reading comprehension test, 5) because the data of this research were not only in the form of numbers but also in the form of words or sentences, the data analysis was done by studying the whole data from many sources which were interview, questionnaire, and reading comprehensions test. The result of the study showed that the students‟ mean score of reading comprehension test in the preliminary study (pre-test) was 57. Then the students‟ mean score of reading comprehension test in pre test was 67 and in cycle 2 was 75. In addition, in the preliminary study, there were 5% of the students who passed the test and 94% of the students who failed in the test. Then, in cycle 1, there were 46% of the students who passed the test and 66% of the students who failed in the test. As a result, the criteria of success had not been achieved yet because the students who passed the test were less than 75% of criteria of success so that cycle 2 was needed to be conducted. In cycle 2, the criteria success which was 75% could be achieved by the students because there were 80% of the students who passed the test, and there were only 19% of the students who failed in the test. It means that the action research was successful so that the researcher stopped the research in this cycle. Based on the result of the study above, it could be inferred that the implementation of PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) technique was successful in this research, and the PQRST (Priview, Question, Read, Summary,Test) technique could be an alternative to improve the students‟ reading comprehension especially narrative text