The effect of preview, question, read, reflect, recite and review (Pq4r) strategy on reading recount text comprehension at Grade XI Students Of SMA Terpadu Darul Hasan Padangsidimpuan

This study is intended to investigate the effect of using Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, and Review (PQ4R) Strategy on Students’ Reading Recount Text Comprehension At Grade XI of SMA Terpadu Darul Hasan Padangsidimpuan. The problems faced by students in speaking were: 1) Students had lack of vocabulary, 2) Students felt English was a boring lesson, 3) Students felt English was a difficult lesson, 4) Students had difficulties in comprehend the text. This study has three formulation of the problem, they are how students’ reading recount text comprehension before learning by using PQ4R strategy is, how students’ reading recount text comprehension before learning by using PQ4R strategy, and is there any significant effect of PQ4R strategy on students’ reading recount text comprehension. The purpose of this study were to know the students’ reading recount text comprehension English before learning by using PQ4R strategy, to know the students’ reading recount text comprehension English after learning by using PQ4R strategy, and to examine whether there is significant effect of learning by PQ4R strategy on students’ reading recount text comprehension at Grade XI students of SMA Terpadu Darul Hasan Padangsidimpuan. This studu used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The population was all of the students at the eleventh grade of SMA Terpadu Darul Hasan Padangsidimpuan. The sampled were XI MIA-1 as experimental class consisted of 26 students and XI MIA-2 as control class consisted 19 students. The data were colected throught pre-test and post-test in reading test and analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of this study showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after learning by using PQ4R strategy. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 58,04 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 57,08. Meanwhile, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 81,35 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 77,53. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that tcount>ttable (2,17>2,02). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted, null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was effect of PQ4R strategy on students’ reading recount text comprehension at grade XI of SMA Terpadu Darul Hasan Padangsidimpuan