IMPROVING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH WH-QUESTIONS TECHNIQUE

Yusi Indah Putri, Cucu Sutarsyah, Deddy Supriyadi

Abstract


Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menyelidiki apakah terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dari kemampuan siswa dalam memahami bacaan sebelum dan setelah penerapan teknik WH- Questions dan untuk menyelidiki apakah teknik WH-Questions memberikan peningkatan yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan siswa dalam memahami bacaan. Data diperoleh dari pre-test dan post-test untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan kemampuan siswa dalam memahami bacaan setelah diajar dengan menggunakan teknik WH-Questions. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa t-value lebih tinggi dari t-tabel (7,050> 2,045) dan α (0,00 <0,05) yang berarti ada perbedaan yang signifikan antara nilai rata-rata siswa pada pretest dan posttest. Peningkatan tertinggi berasal dari aspek menemukan informasi rinci. Nilai rata-rata aspek ini dalam pretest adalah 67 kemudian meningkat menjadi 85 di posttest. Jadi, dapat disimpulkan bahwa teknik WH-Questions memberi efek positif untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam memahami bacaan, terutama dalam aspek mencari informasi rinci.

The objectives of this research are to investigate whether there is significant differences of the students’ reading comprehension before and after the implementation of WH-Questions technique and to investigate whether WH-questions technique give significant improvement to the students’ reading comprehension. The data were obtained from the pre-test and post-test to find out whether there is an improvement of the students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught by using Wh-Questions technique. The result showed that the t-value is higher than t-table (7.050 > 2.045) and α (0.00 < 0.05) meaning there was significance difference between students’ mean score in pretest and posttest. The highest improvement came from finding detail information aspect. The mean score of this aspect in the pretest was 67 then increased to 85 in the posttest. So, it can be concluded that WH-question technique gave a positive effect to improve students’ reading comprehension, especially in finding detail information.

Keywords: reading comprehension, teaching reading, wh-questions technique


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