The Effect of Preview, Question, Read, Summarize, Test (PQRST) Method on Student’s Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text st Grade Tenth of SMA Negeri 4 Pematangsiantar

Abstract

This research aims to find out the effect of Preview, Question, Read, Summarize, Test, Method on the students’ reading comprehending in Narrative Text at grade tenth of SMA Negeri 4 Pematangsiantar. There are also several main theories used to support this research, namely; Wormeli (2010), Brown (2000:91), Ary, Jacob & Sorensen (2010), Harmer (2001), Hatch & Farhady (1982), Heilman (1981), Knapp & Watkins (2005),This research was designed as a quantitative method research design. The data that was took in X PMIA 2 as control class and X PMIA 3 as experimental class. The data were obtained through pre-test, treatment and post test. The pre-test was held to know the students’ basic ability or score before treatment was given. Meanwhile, the post test was held to know the students’ achievement and significant effect after the students were taught using PQRST Method. The difference or the improvement as the whole students got in post test from control to experimental group is 345 or 10,14 point in average.The score of that t-test (3,90) is higher than t-table (1,99) at level of significance 5% for two tailed test. so Null Hypothesis is rejected and Alternative Hypothesis is accepted.