IMPROVING STUDENTS' READING ABILITY BY USING PQ4R STRATEGY IN RECOUNT TEXT AT MTs. NEGERI KOTA BATU
Reading is very important skill in learning language beside listening, speaking, and writing. Reading is very important at the early stage of learning in Junior high school. Students should be trained on how to read well in their reading. In teaching reading, the teacher has to use some strategies. By applying some of strategies in teaching reading, it is hoped that the students will be interest in learning reading. The objective of this study was to know how using PQ4R strategy improves the eighth graders students' reading. In this study, the writer used Classroom Action Research (CAR) CAR is a process in which participants examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully using the techniques of research. The subject of this study was eighth graders and the setting was MTs Negeri Kota Batu. The instrument used to collect the data was observation and test. The result of this study showed that PQ4R strategy improved students' reading ability. The researcher used two cycles in solving the problems of the study. In cycle 1, the number of students who passed the passing grade was 4 students (13,33% of 30 stuudents. While in cycle II, the number of students who passed the passing grade was increasing to become 29 students (96,66% Based on findings, it can be conclude that PQ4R strategy improved the students' reading ability of eighth graders of MTs Negeri Kota Batu.