THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PQRST (PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ, STATE, TEST) STRATEGY ON THE STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF THE FIRST GRADE AT MA DARUL HUDA WONODADI BLITAR

Sholikah, Siti Maratus. Student Registered Number. 17203153084. 2019. The Effectiveness of Using PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy on The Student’s Reading Comprehension Ability of The First Grade at MA Darul Huda Wonodadi Blitar. Thesis. English Education Program. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor. Dr. Sukarsono. M.Pd. Key Word: Effectiveness, PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy, Reading Comprehension, Descriptive text. Reading comprehension is a capability of someone to get the meaning from what they read. Most of students usually feel difficult and get bored doing reading comprehension acivity in exploring descriptive text. Therefore, to help students interested in comprehending the whole content of descriptive text easily like looking for main idea, massage and the important informations, strategy is needed to improve student’s reading comprehension. It is PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy that was proposed by Rune Peterson. PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy can be one of the ways in developing students’ reading comprehension. And The main goal of PQRST Strategy is to help students to advance their reading comprehension. The formulation of research problem: is there significant difference in the student’s reading comprehension scores before and after being taught by using PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy? The objective of research is to identify the significant difference on the student’s reading comprehension ability before and after being taught by using PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, State, Test) Strategy. The researcher determines this study as quantitative in the form of pre-experimental design that involves one only group pre-test and post-test. The population is all of the students which consist of 64 students. For the sample is class of X MIA A that consists of 20 students selected by purposive sampling. Then, the instrument in this research is reading comprehension test by using objective test that consists of twenty five multiple choices about descriptive text. To compare the result of pre-test and post-test used Paired sample t-test in SPSS 16.0. Whether effective or not. The result showes that difference between the mean scores of pre-test and post-test. The mean score of post-test (18.90) is higher than the mean score of pre-test (15.05). The significance value is smaller than the significance level (0.000