U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 3, No 3 (2014): U-JET

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING RAPQ TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

Ilona Mutiara Rinjani (Unknown)
Cucu Sutarsyah (Unknown)
Hartati Hasan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Apr 2014

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui aspek membaca yang meningkat paling besar setelah diajar menggunakan RAPQ dan untuk mengetahui tanggapan siswa pada siswa sebelum dan setelah pemberian teknik pembelajaran RAPQ. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas dua SMPN. Penelitian ini menggunakan pre-test dan post-test satu kelompok dan para siswa diajar sebanyak tiga kali. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan t-test Pengukuran Berulang. Pada pre-tes, nilai rata-rata adalah 53,4 menjadi 69,86 pada post test. Ini berarti bahwa ada peningkatan sebesar 16,45. Hasil t-test menunjukkan bahwa t-ratio lebih tinggi daripada t-table (7,849 2,042) dengan signifikan level p 0,05 dan signifikan 2-tailed p=0,000. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa teknik pembelajaran RAPQ dapat meningkatkan pemahaman membaca pada siswa dan memberikan tanggapan yang positif.The aim of this research is to find out the aspects of reading comprehension that can improve the most after being taught through RAPQ and to identify the student response before and after being treated RAPQ teaching technique. The sample of the research was the second grade students of SMPN, VIII B as try out test and VIII C as experimental class. The study employed one group pretest and posttest design and the students were given three treatments. The data were obtained by using Repeated Measure t-test. In pre test, the mean score is 53.4 and it becomes 69.86 in post test. It means that there is an increase of 16.45 points. The result of t-test shows that t-ratio is higher than t-table (7.849 2.042) with the level of significant is p 0.05 and significant two tail is p=0.000. It can be said that RAPQ teaching technique improves the students’ reading comprehension and gives a positive response. Keywords: improve, RAPQ teaching technique, reading comprehension

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...