%A Ledy Mailiza 0813042006
%J Digiral Library
%T IMPROVING STUDENTS? READING COMPREHENSION OF REPORT
TEXT THROUGH SQ3R TECHNIQUE AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMAN
1 MUARA ENIM
%X This research was conducted from the considerations that the students still got low
scores in reading comprehension test. There were many factors that influenced
students? problems in comprehending the reading text. One of the strategies which
is considered applicable and useful in improving students? reading comprehension
is SQ3R technique. Therefore, the objective of this research was to find out
whether there was an improvement of students? reading comprehension
achievement of report text after being taught through SQ3R technique.
This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Muara Enim. The population of this
research was the second grade students that consisted of six classes and two
classes were chosen, one class as try out class and one class as sample of the
research. The study employed one group pretest posttest design. The students
were given three treatments. As the instruments, the researcher used objective
reading test, that is, multiple choice test that was administered both in pretest and
posttest.
Repeated measure T-Test was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing
were computed using SPSS version 17.00 at the level significant of 0.5. Based on
the calculation t-test, the result showed that the students? mean scores of posttest
(72.12) was higher than the pretest (47.66) with the difference of 24.46 point. The
results of t-test indicated that the significant (2-tailed) value was 0.000 (p=0.000,
P<0.05). It showed that the hypothesis was accepted, since there was an
improvement of students? reading comprehension achievement of report text after
being taught through SQ3R technique. It was proved by their enthusiasm and
participation, the students seemed so active in teaching learning process.
Therefore, SQ3R technique is recommended to be used by the teachers to improve
their students? reading comprehension achievement. However, since students have
opportunity to interact in discussion, teachers should pay careful attention to
overcome noisy class.
%D 2012
%L eprints16793