TEACHER’S USE OF PRE-QUESTIONING TECHNIQUE TO READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SECOND YEAR STUDENTS SMPN 2 PASAMAN

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ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to identify the teacher’s use of pre-questioning technique to reading comprehension achievement of descriptive text at second year students SMPN 2 Pasaman. This study was particularly aimed at: 1. Identifying the way in which teacher use pre-questioning technique to reading class, 2. Identifying the students’ ability of reading comprehension of descriptive text, 3. Identifying the students’ opinion about the teachers use pre-questioning technique to reading class. The design of this research was descriptive. Total number of population of this research was 174 students of the eighth grade students at SMPN 2 Pasaman. The data were collected from interview, reading test and questionnaire. Interview was used to identify the way in which teacher’s use of pre-questioning technique to reading class, reading test was used to identify students’ comprehension achievement of descriptive text and questionnaire used to identify the students’ opinion about the teachers use pre-questioning technique to reading class. This study concluded that almost all the teachers agreed with using pre-questioning technique. The researcher found that three teachers use pre-questioning technique to reading class. The students’ ability in comprehending descriptive text of main ideas and supporting details using pre-questioning technique was moderate and more than half of the students (57.69%) had positive opinion on the teacher’s use of pre-questioning technique to reading class, caused students failed to activate schemata as Brown opinion if the reader lacks appropriate schemata or fails to activate them, comprehension may be impaired, so students’ ability in comprehending of descriptive text was moderate

Key words      :           Pre-questioning Technique, Reading Comprehension and Descriptive Text.