Effects Of Pre-Questioning On The Reading Comprehension Achievement Of Students

Abstract This study were conducted to investigate the effect of Pre-questioning on the Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Second Grade Students at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya, to investigate the effects of students’ gender on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya, and to investigate the effects of pre-questioning and students gender on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007. The forms of questions were in multiple choice and essay, multiple choice used for reading comprehension tests and essay used for Pre-questioning tests. There were sixty-eight of second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya in academic year 2006/2007 as the sample on this study.
The writer used factorial experimental method in this study. The data were processed and analyzed according to these steps: taking the data, coding, scoring, tabulating using SPSS version 13 and taking the conclusion based on the statistic result.
The result of this study shows that “the Pre-questioning has a significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension achievement”, “the students’ gender has no a significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension achievement”, and “there is no interaction effect between pre-questioning and students’ gender”.
In this study the experimental class (the treatment using pre-questioning) has a better ability in comprehend the text than control class. It can be seen from the mean score and the result of two way of ANOVA.

Conclusion. Based on the result of this study, the writer can answer the problem of the study that has been stated in Chapter I, they are as follows:
•    What is the effect of treatment with pre-questioning on the Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Second Grade Students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in Academic year 2006/2007?
•    What is the effect of the student’s gender with treatments on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007?
•    What is the effect of treatments and student’s gender on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya in academic year 2006/2007?
From the result of data analysis, it can be answered that:
•    There is significant effect of treatment with pre-questioning on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya.
•    There is no significant effect of the student’s gender with treatments on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes of SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya
•    There is no significant effect of treatments and student’s gender on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students of IPS classes at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya Palangkaraya
There are some intervening variables that can influence the result of this study. They are as follow:
•    Students’ prior knowledge
•    Learning style of the students
•    Background education of the teacher
•    Social economic of the students

Suggestion. Considering the result of this study, the writer would like to give some suggestions. They are as follows:
1.    It is important for the teacher to improve the students’ comprehension in reading text by giving any assignment or home work, especially the question in form of main idea and supporting detail, which is regarded more difficult for the students.
2.    It hoped that the teacher teach the reading comprehension from the easiest to the most difficult one.
3.  The teacher should build a favorable atmosphere at times of teaching-learning process conducted, because a conductive condition in teaching would become one access to carry the success of material to be taught.
4.    It is necessary to another researcher conduct a further research, in order to validate the result of this study.
Finally, the writer considers that this study still need validation from the next researcher that has the same topic with this study
writer and researcher: Mahdalena, Leny
years of research: 2007
native title:
Effects of Pre-questioning on the reading comprehension achievement of the second grade students at SMAN-2 Jekan Raya in academic year 2006/2007

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