THE EFFECT OF APPLYING PQRST METHOD ON
STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By :
HERBIANA SIPAYUNG
Reg. No. 2103121021
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all, the writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to Almighty God, Jesus Christ for His amazing grace, uncountable blessing, loves, opportunity, guidance and strength given to the writer during his study and in completing this thesis which entitled: The effect of applying PQRST method on
students’ reading comprehension. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan of the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan (UNIMED).
In completing this thesis, the writer realized that she faced some problems and she had received the academic guidance, suggestions, and comments and got a lot of assistance and moral support from many people. Therefore, the writer would like to express her gratitude and special thanks to:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., as the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English Department.
Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., as the Head of English Education Study Program.
Prof. Dr. Lince Sihombing, M.Pd., as her Thesis Consultant.
Drs. Elia Masa Ginting, M.Hum., as her Academic Advisor.
Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd., as her Reviewer and Examiner.
All the Lecturers of English Department who have taught, guided, and advised her throughout the academic years.
Mam Euis, as the administration staff of English Department, for her attention, assistance, and information in completing it.
Drs. Eden Purba, M.Pd., as the Headmaster of SMA Negeri 1 Sidamanik, for his permission and opportunities in allowing the writer to do observation and to collect data. And all the teachers and students at the school for the good cooperation
Her beloved parents, Herbinson Sipayung and Rosida Gultom, S.Pd., her brothers, Horas Sipayung, S.Pd., and Johanter Sipayung,
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Her friends in Reguler Dik. C’ 2010, as her great class for the love and togetherness throughout four years, her friends in PPLT SMA Negeri 1 Kabanjahe 2013 for many experiencies and togetherness and her friends in boarding house for many togetherness.
Her family in UKMKP, Stempel Small Group (Ernawaty, Harnoi, Oktavia, Kronica, Enricho, and Chandra).
The writer realizes that this thesis still has the paucity, she conveniently welcomes any suggestions, comments critics, and advices that will improve the quality of this thesis. She hopes that this thesis would be useful for those who are read and interested in the field of this study.
Medan, September 2014 The writer,
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ABSTRACT
Sipayung, Herbiana. 2103121021. The Effect of Applying PQRST Method on Students’ Reading Comprehension. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2014
This study deals with the effect of applying PQRST method on students’ reading
comprehension. The objective of this study is to find out whether PQRST method
significantly effect on students’ reading comprehension or not. This study was
conducted by using experimental research design. The population of the study was the students of grade X of SMA Negeri 1 Sidamanik. There were sixty students as the sample of the research. This study conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using PQRST method while control group was taught using traditional
method. The data of the study were obtain from students’ score of test. To
determine the reliability of the test, the writer used the Kuder Richardson formula (KR-21). The result of the study showed that reliability of the test was 0.618. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula, the analysis showed that score students in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of students in the level of control group at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58 the t-observed is 5.333 while t-table is 2.000. It can be concluded
that applying PQRST method significantly affects on students’ reading
comprehension. It means that the hypothesis is accepted.
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E. The Significance of the Study ... 5
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE ... 7
A. Theoretical Framework ... 7
1. Reading ... 7
2. The Purpose of Reading ... 8
3. Factors Affecting Reading ... 10
4. Reading Comprehension ... 12
5. Level of Comprehension ... 13
6. The Process of Reading Comprehension ... 17
7. Narrative Text ... 19
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 28
A. Research Design... 28
B. Population and Sample ... 29
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D. The Procedure of The Test ... 30
1. Pre-test ... 30
2. Treatment ... 30
3. Post-Test ... 32
E. The Scoring of Reading Test ... 32
F. The Validity and Reliability of The Test ... 33
1. The Validity of The Test ... 33
2. The Reliability of The Test... 34
G. The Technique of Analyzing Data ... 35
H. Statistical Hypothesis ... 36
CHAPTER IV THE DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 37
A. The Data ... 37
B. Data Analysis ... 38
C. Testing Hypothesis ... 40
D. Research Finding ... 40
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ... 42
A. Conclusion ... 42
B. Suggestions ... 42
REFERENCES ... 43
APPENDIXES ... 45
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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 3.1 Research Design ... 28
Table 3.2 Treatment in Experimental Group ... 31
Table 3.3 Teaching procedure in Control Group ... 31
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LIST OF APPENDIXES
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APPENDIX A. The Scores of the Pre-test and Post-test………... 45
APPENDIX B. The calculation of t-test ... 47
APPENDIX C. The Reliability of the test ... 50
APPENDIX D. Percentage Points of the T Distribution ... 52
APPENDIX E. Lesson Plan ... 53
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the study
Communication requires a language, language users (sender and receiver) and message. Although the receiver does not have to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver understands the sender's message
As it has been explained above, one of components of communication is message. Message means ideas to be shared by sender to receiver. When making interaction in communication, people use language. Most of people’s activities are done in using language. People use language to make statements, convey facts, report something, and keep relations with other language users
With the above statement, it can be concluded that language is the expression of human personality in the world, whether written or spoken. In addition, language is the main means of communication used in social interaction
within a community. In short, language is a very important thing in people’s life.
People certainly can not communicate one another without language.
Nowadays, providing students’ with high quality education is necessary.
The student should realize and consider that life in beyond the first century will be different from now. The student must try to develop their knowledge and
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competence to face competitive future because it is continuing challenge. Competence in the language such as Indonesia, Mandarin, French, and others needed especially English.
It is known that English is an international language, even though in Indonesia, it is placed as a foreign language. English as a foreign language is a language that is used in a global area. It is very important to be mastered because it is a tool of communication in all over the world.
In Indonesia, English as a part of national curriculum, especially for senior high school. It is intended to meet the need era where English is used as an introductory language. Students who are learning English have desire to master the four language skills, namely : listening, speaking, reading, and writing, where other aspect of them, structure, vocabulary, and pronunciation are supporting skill which coherent one to another.
Among the four of skill in English, reading is the most emphasized in English teaching and learning process. Reading is not passive but rather an active process, involving the reader in going interaction with the text. Reading is constantly involves guessing, predicting, checking and comprehending.
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reading the students are able to follow the progress of technology and science which broaden their knowledge.
Reading is a means of language acquisition of communication, and sharing ideas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading). These ideas are usually some sort of representation of language, such as symbols to be examined by sight and by touch. It is mean that reading is a result of the interaction between the perceptions of cognitive skills, knowledge of world and so on. It is called as reading comprehension.
Students must be able to comprehend the meaning of the texts in form of recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive and report in the context of daily life. The most often problem is the difficulty of getting information or content of reading text. Nowadays, teacher have big responsibility to teach reading for their
students because Indonesian government use reading to assess the students’ ability
in English which implicated in national examination.
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Therefore, they had low score because they lost their time while translating it and finally they guessed the answer or cheated from another friend. They did not have opportunity to comprehend and to get the benefit of the text for the development of their academic, skill, and intelligence..
The teacher as instructor and guider must help students in solving the problems in reading comprehension by using new strategy when learn reading.
When the teacher is successful in gaining students’ attention, the teacher can
attract students’ interest and as what has been told previously, the students
achievement in reading text especially in reading narrative text can achieved.
All the explanation above is reflected in one strategy, namely PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Summary, and Test) method. By using that method the students will force focusing to the text and read the text again.
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Based on explanations above, the writer concludes that by using PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Summary, and Test) might be suitable on the students’ reading comprehension.
B. The Problem of the Study
Based on the background of study, The problem of study can be
formulated in the form of question: “Is there any significantly effect of PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Summary, and Test) method on students’ reading
comprehension?”
C. The Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to find out whether PQRST (Preview,
Question, Read, Summary, and Test) method significantly effect on students’
reading comprehension.
D. The Scope of the study
The scope of this study is limited to find out the effect of using PQRST method on students reading comprehension at literal and interpretive comprehension on narrative text.
E. The Significant of the Study
The result of this study are expected to be useful for:
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b. Students to increase their achievement in many kinds of text particularly narrative text.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusion
Based on the research finding, it can be concluded that teaching reading skill by applying PQRST method significantly affects on the students’ reading comprehension. It can be seen from the data which had obtained in the post-test of experimental group were: the total score was 2300 and the mean score was 76.66, while the data in control group were: the total score was 2010 and the mean score was 67. Thus, the students’ score in experimental group was higher than the
students’ score in control group. The calculation of the data in the testing hypothesis showed that t-observed (5.333) was higher than t-table (2.000), it means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.
B. Suggestions
Based on the conclusion above, the result of this research contributed some valuable suggestion for those who interest in teaching reading skill as follows:
1. The English teachers to improve their method in teaching reading comprehension by applying PQRST method, so that the students can comprehend on what they had read.
2. Students are advised to have more practices and applying PQRST method in reading comprehension.
3. For better result in the future, the others researcher have to involve more students and classroom meeting, especially in reading skill.
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