THE USE OF QUESTION-ANSWER RELATIONSHIP (QAR) STRATEGY TO ENHANCE THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

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Vol 4, No 1 (2022): Volume 4 Nomor 1 Tahun 2022

Students get difficulty in comprehending the words in the reading. The purpose of the research is to find out the effect of using the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy on the eleventh-grade students’ reading comprehension especially narrative texts. It was conducted on the eleventh-grade students of SMAN 4 Cibinong. Thirty-five students were taken as the sample. The method used in this research was pre-experimental, with one group pre-test post-test research design. The data were collected through reading comprehension pre-test and post-test scores in the form of multiple-choice items. The data were analyzed using the t-test formula. The result showed that the value of t-value was 16.86, while the value of the t-table was 2.03 with the degree of freedom of 34 at the significance level (a) 0.05. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted.