This final project discusses teaching reading narrative text
through PQ4R Strategy (an experimental research at the ninth grade of SMP Ma’arif NU 02 Jatinegara in the academic year of 2015/2016). The statement of problems in this study is how effective is the use of PQ4R Strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension skill of narrative text?. The background of the study is the students of Ninth grade
SMP Ma’arif NU 02 Jatinegara have the problem to understand their English learning especially inreading. They still lack of vocabulary. Their comprehension can be recognized through their way of reading. The population of the research was the ninth grade students of SMP Ma’arif NU 02Jatinegara. The research method was an experimental research, which conducted in two classes; the experimental group (IX A) and control group (IX B) as sample. The IX A was taught by using PQ4R Strategy, while the IX B was taught
with conventional method. The researcher gave try-out test to try-out class. The test had been tried out to find out the validity, reliability, difficulty level, and discriminating power before it was used to gather the data. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It
was used to determine whether there was significant difference between students’ score in experimental and control class or not. After collecting the data, it was found that the pre-test average score in experimental class was 47,609 and control class was 43,913. Meanwhile, the post-test average score of in experimental class was
74,783and control class was65,435 . It was obtained that t-test was 2,768 and the t-table was 2.02for alpha (α) 5%. The t-test was higher than t-table (2,768>2.02) It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. Since t-test score was higher than t-table, PQ4R Strategy as teaching strategy was effective in teaching reading narrative text at SMP Ma’arif NU 02 Jatinegara in the Academic year of 2015/2016. based on the result, the researcher suggest that PQ4R Strategy may be used as alternative strategy in teaching reading especially in teaching reading text type, in order that the students can comprehend text more easily and more interested in reading activity.