THE EFFECT OF APPLYING QUESTION ANSWER RELATIONSHIP STRATEGY TO ENGLISH SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

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This study aimed at finding out the effect of applying Question Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy to English second semester students’ reading comprehension ability at Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. This study employed an experimental research. The population of this study was the students second semester of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. Researchers applied total sampling in this study. The instruments of this research were reading comprehension test and video recorder. After analyzing the data, the results of the study indicated that there was a significant effect when using Question Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy in understanding recount text. It can be seen from the mean score of pre-test were (55.53) and mean scores of the post-test was (86.78). at last, the researchers concluded that there was an effect to the students’ reading comprehension
ability. In addition, it is advisable for English Lecturer to use Question Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy in teaching reading comprehension as an alternative way to make students easier to comprehend the text and the students are able to apply this strategy in another kind of text to help them easier in understand the text by answering the question
Keywords: Question Answer Relationship (QAR); strategy; reading comprehension; recount text