Using Sq3r Strategy To Improve The Students’ Reading Comprehension Of Expository Text At The Second Year Students Of SMAN 10 Pekanbaru

Abstract

The aim of this research was to know whether SQ3R strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension of expository text at the second year students of SMAN 10 Pekanbaru. Expository/Exposition text is a piece of writing that tries to convince the readers to agree with the author’s viewpoint by analyzing a certain issue within the text. Communicative purposes of this text are to persuade the readers by presenting arguments and analyzing how and why arguments given. The researcher was helped by a collaborator in conducting this research. The researcher used reading test to see the improvement of students’ reading comprehension on each cycle, while observation sheets and field notes was used to reflect teacher and students activities. The research started from March 12, until May 13, 2013. At the beginning of cycle 1 the average score of the students’ reading comprehension was 46.67. At the end of cycle 1, it improved to 57.26, at the end of cycle 2 it improved to 75.24, and at the end of cycle 3 it improved to 79.88. The factors of SQ3R strategy that influence the students’ reading comprehension are: (1) activation of background knowledge; (2) making inference; (3) having rich experience. Based on research finding, it was concluded that SQ3R strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension at the second year students’ of SMAN 10 Pekanbaru.