Novayeri, Cicilia (2012) Increasing The Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text Sthrough The Use of Pre-Questioning at The Eighth Grade of Junior High School Muhammadiyah 4 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo.

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Abstract

The students difficulties in understanding reading text caused by some factorssuch as the low strategy and technique in reading. Beside it most of the studentsnot interested to the topics because they feel that the topics are very difficult to beunderstood. To reach it the teacher must having good strategy in solves theseproblems, one of strategies that can be used is pre-questioning. Pre-questioningitself can build the students’ interest and motivation before they read the wholetext.

The object this research was twenty students of eighth grade of Junior HighSchool Muhammadiyah 4 Metroin academic year 2012/2013. The design of thisresearch was a classroom action research. It was conducted in two cycles; eachcycle was done in three meetings. In this research the students were given pre-testbefore treatment and post-test after treatment.

This research aimed to find out whether the use of pre-questioning strategy couldincreasethestudents’participation and students’ mastery in readingcomprehenison on narrative texts. The data collection method in this research wasobservations, test, and documentations. There was a collaborator who observedlearning process and collecting the data. The observation was used to get the dataof student mastery in learning reading comprehension. The purpose of pre-test andpost test are to know how far the students have reading comprehension before andafter being given treatment. The criteria of the students’ pass that got minimumscore 65.

The result in cycle 1 showed that the average of pre-test 1 score was 57,5% or 11students was pass and in the post-test 1 average score was 66,25% or 18 studentswas pass. It is same in the cycle 2 having significant up score. The average ofpost-test 2 average score was 79% or 20 students as pass. This fact show thatteaching English by using pre-questioning strategy can increase the students’reading comprehension on narrative texts.

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