Improving students’reading ability by using question-answer relationship

Abstract

QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) strategy is a teaching strategy which asks the students to read narrative text and classify question and answer it into each of QAR categories. The objective of this research is to determine whether or not Question Answer Relationship Strategy can improve reading ability of the second semester students of Universitas PGRI Madiun. This research is classroom action research consisting of two cycles. Each cycle consists of four steps. They are planning, action, observation and reflection. The result of this research shows that the students' reading ability is increase. It can be proven from the mean score of cycle one is 70.56 and cycle two is 75,83. The researcher also found that QAR helps the students to understand the text. The students are interested in answering the question based on the text, are motivated to read the text, and feel not bored in teaching reading process. Keywords: reading, QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) strategy, motivation AbstrakStrategi QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) adalah strategi pembelajaran yang meminta siswa membaca teks naratif dan mengklasifikasikan pertanyaan dan jawaban ke dalam masing-masing kategori QAR. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah strategy Question Answer Relationship Strategy dapat meningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa semester dua Universitas PGRI Madiun. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas dengan terdiri dari dua siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri dari empat tahap. Tahapan tersebut adalah merencanakan, melakukan tindakan, observasi dan refleksi. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan membaca siswa menggunakan strategi QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) meningkat. Hal ini dapat dibuktikan dari rerata siklus satu yaitu 70,56 dan siklus dua adalah 75,83. Peneliti juga menemukan bahwa QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) membantu siswa untuk memahami teks, siswa menjadi lebih tertarik untuk menjawab pertanyaan berdasarkan teks, siswa menjadi lebih termotivasi dalam membaca teks, dan membuat siswa tidak merasa bosan dalam mengikuti proses pembelajaran membaca.

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