THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PQ4R METHOD ON READING COMPREHENSION IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

his research was conducted because there were problems in students' reading comprehension ability, the way that teachers delivered the material in conventional ways and the lack of use of learning method during teaching impacted students' low of reading ability. The formulation of the problem in this research is how effective was the PQ4R method usage in improving the students' reading comprehension ability. The purpose of this research is to find out the improvement of students' reading comprehension ability through PQ4R method. This research was conducted a classroom action research. The procedure for collecting data was carried out by two cycles. The data analysis technique of this research is qualitative data and quantitative data. The qualitative data was taken by interview and observation sheet while qualitative data was taken using SPSS 26.0. The result show that there was unimprovement on the students' reading ability as it was provent in cycle I, the students' average score was 52.10 then the improvement was found in cycle II with an average score was 75.50, it mean there was a 23.4 point as the improvement. Other improvement was shown from the students' activeness and motivation in learning reading. In conclusion, there is significance in using the PQ4R method in order to improving students' ability in reading comprehension.