@misc{eprints79196, month = {Februari}, title = {IMPROVING STUDENTS? READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH QUESTION ANSWER RELATIONSHIP (QAR) STRATEGY IN THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 9 BANDARLAMPUNG}, author = {Prameswari Regita }, address = {UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG}, publisher = {FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN}, year = {2024}, url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/79196/}, abstract = {This research aimed to find out whether there is any significant improvement of students? reading comprehension after being taught through Question Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy and to find out the correlation between students? response and students? reading comprehension achievement. This research was quantitative. The researcher used a one group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research was the tenth grade students at SMAN 9 Bandarlampung where students of 10.7 were chosen as the sample. The data were obtained through reading comprehension test and questionnaire. The researcher used Repeated Measures t-test and Pearson Product Moment correlation to analyze the data. The results showed that there was an increase of students? score from 59.49 in the pre-test to 75.05 in the post-test. According to statistical calculation, there is significant increase because the t-value (17.24) is higher than t-table (2.03). Furthermore, there is significant correlation between students? response and students? reading comprehension achievement with correlation value 0.679. This showed that the better the students? response, the more the students? reading comprehension increased. It can be concluded that QAR strategy is considered as an effective strategy to improve students? reading comprehension. Keywords: Question Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy, Reading, Reading Comprehension} }