IMPROVING THE
STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH QAR IN NARRATIVE MATERIALS (Action
Research)
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language
is a tool of communication. It is used to express ideas, feeling, suggestion,
creation, or emotion that will be much easier to express it in our mother
tongue. Trouble comes when we are asked to express ourselves in a foreign
language. English as an international language has four mayor skills that
widely used and spoken all over the world. They are listening, speaking,
reading, and writing. In teaching English, the students are encouraged to use
English for communication and to read the books and references written in
English.
Reading
is one of the main skills in English that plays important role. Reading can be
defined as an active cognitive process
of interacting with the print and
monitoring comprehension to establish meaning and through reading we can get
much knowledge, study new words, comprehend ideas, study the word are used, how
to implement the grammatical rules, and gain the information.
Most
of students have many problems in reading book or passage. One of them is to find
main idea of the text they read. They can read the words well but they cannot
get the main idea. That is why sometimes they feel sleepy in class because they
get no any comprehension about the text they read. At the end, they cannot answer
the questions based on the text perfectly. This problem occurs because the
teacher only asks the students to read the text and answer all the questions
without giving any explanation that help the students in comprehending the text
well.
It
can be seen from Hafsah (2005:35) who stated that the students find some
difficulties to comprehend such as they don`t understand the content of the
material, what the text about, and they hard to find main idea of every
paragraph. And also from the researcher`s experience after taught many
students, found that those condition becomes a reason to run the teaching and
learning process better in classroom.
Based on the explanation
above, the teacher should give more attentions to this problem to increase the
student ability in reading comprehension. One of way is using one strategy
namely Question Answer Relationship (QAR).
In this strategy, the students are given short passage
to be read from the textbook. As finish reading it, they are asked question and
point out the differences each question and the kind of answer it requires. The
teacher must use questioning in measuring the
