Research

THE EFFECT OF QAR (QUESTION-ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT PESANTREN MIFTAHUL MUARRIF

Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastered by the students. And also for junior high school students like in Pondok Pesantren Miftahul Muarif that have studied reading since the first year of school. Moreover, reading is also the main reason of why students learn the language. Therefore, the main goal of teaching reading at junior high school students is to enable them to read the books, articles, or any other text written in English. Furthermore, the goal of reading is also to find the meaning of what they have read and answer questions based on the reading text. The ability to comprehend something from reading material for students who learn foreign language need to be improved.

The aims of teaching reading are to develop students’ ability to read the material, to get information and to understanding about the text. The aims of teaching reading for the reader are to comprehend and to react to what is written. Therefore, their skill is not easy to be mastered, because the reader should have an ability to comprehend the author’s message, the main idea, guessing vocabulary in context, and also finding reference and inference. The students should be able to read the English text actively, efficiently and to get information from the reading text.