ABSTRACT
MELY SUSYANTI. 2015. Using Question Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy to Improve students’Reading Comprehension (A Classroom Action Research at the Eight Grade students’ of Mts Muhammadiyah Bontorita Takalar).
Supervised by Syamsiarna Nappu and Awalia Aziz. A Thesis of English Department, The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar
The method of this research was Classroom Action Research that consisted of two cycles. The objective of this research was intended to know theimprovement of the students’ reading comprehension. This classroom action research was done at the Eight Grade students of MTs Muhammadiyah Bontorita Takalar. The subject of this research was class VIII-D in 2015-2016 academic year by using random technique. It consisted of 22 students. The instrument of this research were reading test and observation sheet.
The findings of this research was the improvement of students’ reading comprehension before implementation QARs, the students’ mean score was 4.16 with percentage 41.6% ( poor), but after applying the method the students’
score in the cycle I became 5.17 with percentage 51.7% (fair) and in the cycle II the students’ score improved until 7.27 with percentage 72.7% (Good). The students’ participation in teaching and learning process also improved every meeting, where in the cycle I was 54% and then became 77.84% in the cycle II.
Based on the findings, then it can be concluded that QAR (Questions, Answer Relationship) Strategy Improve the Students Reading Comprehension in case of Literal Comprehensionand improved the students’activeness as well.
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