THE EFFECT OF USING QUESTION AND ANSWER RELATIONSIP STRATEGY TO THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION NEWS ITEM TEXT

Abstract

The objectives of this research was find out the effect of using Question and Answer Relationship strategy to the students’ ability in reading comprehension news item text. The researcher formulated the problems of this research as follow “What is the effect of using Question Answer Relationship Strategy to the students’ ability in comprehending news item text for grade ten of SMA KartikaPematangsiantar?”. To answer this probem, the researcher used some theory namely : that can be support this research : Best and Khan (2006:359), Nunan (2003), Raphael and Au ( 2005) etc. This research was designed as a quantitative research. The population of this research at grade ten of SMA Kartika Pematangsiantar and the sample of this research are X IA-3as experimental class and X IA-2 as control class. The technique of collecting the data was by using test. There were two tests, pretest and postest. The tests were given to the two classes experimental and control class as the sample of this research. Each class consist of 25 students. After giving the test, the researcher analyzed the test result by using technique of scoring reading, tabulated the scores, and counted it. And then the results showed that t-test was 4.50 and t-table was 1.67 (t0>t-table)which means that QAR strategy was significant affected to the students’ ability in reading comprehension news item text.