@article{eprints14937,
           month = {April},
           title = {INCREASING STUDENTS? ACHIEVEMENT IN READING
COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH SELF-
QUESTIONING STRATEGY AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMPN 2
TERUSAN NUNYAI, LAMPUNG TENGAH 


},
          author = {TINCE NOERYANI 0853042040 },
            year = {2013},
         journal = {Digital Library},
             url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/14937/},
        abstract = {The motivating problem of the current research is that the students? reading
comprehension ability is still under the school standard score.  Therefore, the
purpose of teaching English at school is to develop the students? reading skill. 
Reading plays an important role in teaching and learning process.  But, based on
the information from the teacher in SMPN 2 Terusan Nunyai, the students still
have difficulties in comprehending the text.  They get difficulties in getting main
idea, finding the answer of questions and getting specific information from the
text, like a narrative text which has long sentences and vocabularies usages.

One of the efforts to overcome the problem is by using certain strategy, such as
self-questioning strategy. Therefore, the objective of the research was to
investigate whether self-questioning strategy can be used to increase the students?
reading comprehension achievement in narrative text or not.  This research was
quantitative study.  The researcher applied one group pre-test post-test design. 
The sample of the research was the second grade of SMPN 2 Terusan Nunyai,
Lampung Tengah.  One class was taken as the experimental class.  The data was
collected by giving pre-test and post-test.

The finding shows that self-questioning strategy can be used to increase the
students? reading comprehension achievement of narrative text, especially in
identifying the main idea, getting specific information, and also vocabulary. From
the result of the research showed that the mean score of students? post-test in the
experimental class was 78.63 higher than the mean score of students? pre-test was
58.63, with the mean difference was 20.0.  The value of two significant was
0.000.  It means that H0 was rejected and H was accepted since 0.000 {\ensuremath{<}} 0.05.




}
}