IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION BY SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, AND WRITE (SQRW) STRATEGY AT GRADE VIII SMP
BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
Reading is very important in many aspects in life. Some of
important of reading are; activating mind, get a lot of knowledge about many things
in the world such as sciences, technology, sport, arts, cultures, religious, and
give us pleasure too. Reading is the most important skill for English learners.
In reading, the readers can explore new thing, activated their brain, and making
the good one in mind. These important are explained in the following paragraph.
Some important of reading above show that people must pay
attention to their reading and don’t underestimate it. Reading should be mastered
by everybody, more over students. Based on the interview, the researcher got the
information from one of the teachers of English subject that students at Grade
VIII SMP have problem on reading comprehension. It can be seen based on
illustration below:
The first, when the researcher asked the English teacher of
SMP. She said that the Students reading comprehension is low.1 Based on KKM of English
subject the passing grade in the examination is 75. But, the data found in of some
students at grade VIII of SMP reveals the average is 70. 2 So, students reading
comprehension does not fulfill the expectation.
The second, in addition the students’ also have difficulty
in understanding the texts or to get the information from the texts when they
read because they are lack of vocabulary and some of difficult words found in
the text. Sometime the students get wrong information from the texts and appropriate
with the intent or purpose of the author.
The third, students did not have a good strategy in reading.
Students must have reading strategy to be easier and better to comprehend the text,
because reading strategy is important for students and teacher, and reading
strategy is way to reach goal in understanding text.
There are reading strategy that can be used to solve the students’
problem in reading comprehension in the classroom, and also could increase the
students’ ability in reading, such as Skimming, Scanning, SQ3R (Survey,
Question, Read, Recite, Review), PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite
and Review) and SQRW (Survey, Question, Read, and Write). Based on strategies
above, to solve the problem in reading, the researcher chose SQRW strategy. The
reason of the researcher to choose the method is explained in the following
paragraph. First, SQRW is to make students easier to survey or preview the
title and introductory paragraph of the text, read, answer the questions, identify
the important information and summarize the information. Second, the reader can
prepare a written record of what they learned, the researcher record will be
valuable when students have to participate in a class discussion and when students
study for a test. The last, according to Mangrum SQRW can improve their reading
efficiency in three ways; it increases their comprehension, crease their recall,
building students’ reading comprehension skill and it saves students valuable
time by encouraging students to learn as students read.3
Based on this case, the researcher was interested in conducting
a classroom action research (CAR) through the title “IMPROVING STUDENTS’
READING COMPREHENSION BY SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, and WRITE (SQRW) STRATEGY AT
GRADE VIII SMP NEGERI”.
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