Abstract:
The objective of the research were to find out the significant effect of applying
PQRST (Preview-Question-Read-Summarize-Test) which was focused on reading
Achievement especially in descriptive text. The research design in this research
was quantitative experimental research. This research was conducted at SMA
Harapan Mekar Medan in academic years 2017/2018. The population of this
research in the tenth grade students which consist of two classes namely: class X
IPA and X IPS. The total number of population and sample were 63 students,
consisted of two classes. They are X IPA and X IPS.The technique of sample used
total sampling to determine the experimental and control group. The sample were
devided into two groups, the first group X IPA which consists of 33 students was
experimental group which was given treatment by applying PQRST (PreviewQuestion-Read-Summarize-Test)
Techniques and second group X IPS which
consist of 30 students was control group which was given treatment by applying
Grammar Translation Method. The experimental research method was given
multiple choice test as the instrument. Each group was given a treatment, pre-test
and post-test. The t-test was 16.72 and the t-table was 1.67 which was used 0.05
as the significant level of this research. Because the t-test value is higher than ttable
(16.72
>1.67),
it
show
that
the
result
in
t-test
was
accepted
(Ha).
Based
on
the
result
of
this
research,
it
can
be
concluded
that
there
was
significant
effect
of
applying
PQRST (Preview-Question-Read-Summarize-Test) Techniques on the
Students’ Reading Achievement in Descriptive text. After analyzing the data, the
result that the students’ who were taught by applying PQRST (Preview-QuestionRead-Summarize-Test)
techniques got better achievement than those taught by
applying Grammar translation method because applying PQRST (PreviewQuestion-Read-Summarize-Test)
(16.72) more the higher than by applying
Grammar translation method (13.25)
