Using “Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review” In Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Narrative Text At The First Year Student Of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru

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USING “SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, RECITE, REVIEW” IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENT OF SMAN 12 PEKANBARU AHMAD SALEH MAHDUM WIRDA BURHAN E-Mail: ahmad_saleh17@yahoo.com Abstract The objective of the research is to increase the students‟ ability in comprehending narrative text of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru by using survey, question, read, recite, and review. The subjects were 35 students from X2 RSBI class at SMAN 12 Pekanbaru. In collecting the data, the writer gave pre-test to the students in class before treatment in order to get data that relates to the problem. Then, the writer gave post-test after treatment to know the improvement of the students. The aspects which were evaluated: factual information, generic structure, main idea, reference, and inference. Based on the result of teaching and learning process, the writer found that after doing the treatments, the achievement of the first year student of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru in comprehending narrative text was increased. It could be seen from the comparison of result in the pre-test and the post-test. There were only 6 students who had passed minimum criteria in the pre-test. Then it was increase in the post-test. There were 33 students who had passed the minimum criteria (75) in the post-test. The significant improvement also can be seen from the result of total average score. In the pretest, it was 70.4 (average to good level) increased to 80.97 (good to excellent level). In conducting the research by using SQ3R method to increase students‟ ability in comprehending narrative text, the writer also found some improvement of their activities in applying SQ3R method. It is shown the progress of students who follow the activities in every meeting of teaching and learning process from the first meeting to fourth meeting.